In a new world with America obviously weak, Iran feels free to provoke and threaten Israel. At some point, a more overt confrontation between Israel and Iran is imminent. Jihadists will always escalate hostilities in the face of enemy weakness, as shown by Iran’s reaction to Biden’s America. America under Trump was managing to subdue Iran’s aggressions. Now it is left to Israel to deter Iranian aggression and defend itself, under international scrutiny in a world which is becoming increasingly hostile to it, thanks to Biden.
“Iran sending advanced anti-aircraft batteries to challenge Israel,” by Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post, October 25, 2021:
Iran has begun deploying advanced anti-aircraft missile batteries to the region, including in Syria where Israeli jets routinely carry out airstrikes, in an attempt to challenge Israel Air Force jets.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria in an attempt to thwart Iranian entrenchment and the smuggling of advanced weapons to Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon, according to foreign reports, and in countries like Iraq and even further as part of its war-between-wars campaign against Iran.
Over the past year, while Israeli strikes have intensified in Syria, the response time by Syrian air-defense batteries has become quicker. This has lead to the IAF changing how it acts during such operations, including by having larger formation during operations so that more targets can be struck at once instead of having jets return to the same target.
In 2018, an F-16 crashed in northern Israel after it was struck by an S-200 missile fired by Syrian forces during an Israeli operation. Syrian missiles have also landed in Israel in recent years, including this year when shrapnel from one missile hit northern Tel Aviv, and when another errant interceptor missile landed close to the Dimona nuclear site in the Negev Desert.
Iran is a top priority for Israel’s military, and Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi has set aside an additional defense budget for war readiness and military exercises. The IAF has also resumed intensive training for scenarios in which Iran’s nuclear facilities are targeted.
In an attempt to challenge Israeli jets, Iran has changed the deployment of its anti-aircraft missile batteries, separating their radars from the missile launchers. Such a move forces more Israeli jets to take part in any possible operation against the country’s nuclear program.
The Israel Air Force understands that the Islamic Republic’s defense industry is robust. While it might not have an air force, its drone capabilities are worrisome and pose a major threat to Israel and other regional countries, as seen by the 2019 Aramco attack and the recent deadly Mercer Street attack earlier this year.
Defense officials have identified an increased amount of Iranian drones in the hands of Hezbollah, Hamas, and other terrorist groups.
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah have all used weaponized drones to carry out attacks after they invested in drone capabilities….
gravenimage says
Iran deploys advanced anti-aircraft missile batteries in Syria to challenge Israeli jets
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So Syria doesn’t have enough problems with a Sunni insurgency and the Islamic State–they have to attack Israel? (This is of course a rhetorical question).
Infidel says
I doubt that the Syrians really care about Israel: they just want to keep the Iranians happy and are happy to give them forwarding bases in sunni areas of the country
Kesselman says
The world post-Pax Americana is going to be scary. If it wasn’t for America, and the Brits the Nazis, and later Soviet Russia would have dominated.—Without a united and determined United States rogue states are going to tyrannize all smaller entities. It’ll be a world, everyone, for himself and the weak will disappear; contempt for weakness will be the future’s ethos.
On this background, Israel can just count on her strength, military superiority, and the will to use uttermost force.
Westman says
The showdown between Israel and Iran is inevitiable wih Iran’s Jew-hating Mullahs in charge; who would gladly send millions of Iranian citizens to die if it would destroy Israel.
Obviously, the Mullahs know the citizens would prefer overthrowing them rather than dying for them. So, Iran’s religious leaders want a weapon that will start such carnage that the citizens will have no choice after the first nuclear missile detonates. And the plan after destroying Israel – the taking of Mecca.