The appropriate response to Iran is to say that in any war started by any of Iran’s proxies, Israel would take out Assad first. Ted Belman
By Reza Kahlili, The Washington Times
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has ordered the Revolutionary Guards to draw Israel into another Middle East war through their Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hezbollah proxies in an effort to save Bashar Assad’s brutal regime in Syria, sources report.
The ploy appears to be working, as Israeli opposition leaders are demanding the Netanyahu government launch a major military campaign against the terrorist-controlled Gaza Strip.
Just in the past few days, militants in the Hamas-ruled strip have bombarded southern Israel with more than 100 rockets and mortars. The instability in Cairo with the fall of the Mubarak regime has helped the Iranian-backed terrorists in the Sinai area attack Israel from within Egypt’s borders and has enabled Iran to smuggle in thousands of rockets to arm the militants. On Aug. 18, gunmen infiltrated Israel and killed six civilians and two soldiers. And at least one civilian was killed and 20 others were wounded in the rocket attacks.
The Iranian leader had previously sent a letter to President Obama warning him that unless he avoided interfering in Syria’s affairs, consequences would take place in Afghanistan and Iraq. As the White House continued its condemnation of the atrocities in Syria, attacks against U.S. forces picked up in both Iraq and Afghanistan, with several U.S. fatalities.
When Mr. Obama openly called for the ouster of Mr. Assad last week, Iran retaliated by handing out eight-year sentences to the two American hikers held since 2009 on charges of espionage.
The Iranian regime apparently is willing to start a similar Arab-Israeli war like the one in 2006 initiated by the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon. At that time, the Iranian regime feared that President George W. Bush had decided to attack Iran, and therefore it created a diversion not only to flex its muscle in the region but also to keep America busy with yet another crisis. Now fearing the fall of Mr. Assad, who has been complicit in many of Iran’s terrorist plots in the region over the years, it sees the need for another war to divert attention from Syria’s suppression of its people.
Ever since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Syrian regime has provided the kind of gateway for the radicals ruling Iran to create Hezbollah, arm Hamas, sabotage any peace activity between the Palestinian authorities and Israel, and push for the destruction of Israel through its proxies.
Syria is the most important ally of the Iranian regime, and the fall of Mr. Assad would drastically decrease Iran’s influence in the region. It also would threaten the demise of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Iran has done everything at its disposal to help suppress the months-long uprising in Syria. The Iranian supreme leader has called the Syrians involved in the unrest enemies of God and agents of Israel. Back in May, Ayatollah Khamenei held a covert meeting in Tehran with commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, representatives of the Syrian Embassy, members of Hezbollah and leaders of the Sadr movement in Iraq. There, he demanded that all operational and logistic forces be applied to stamp out the blaze of sedition in Syria and destroy those who were enemies of Allah in that country.
The guards also have warned Turkey and any other country that might interfere in Syrian affairs of consequences and that Iranian missiles would be used to retaliate against any interfering force.
Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, a marja scholar in the city of Qom, announced on Sunday that Israel has had a direct hand in the unrest in Syria and issued a fatwa that any change in Syria will be against Islam.
The Iranian regime is determined to save Mr. Assad, and in doing so it will not hesitate to destabilize the region. Mr. Obama, who has rightly called for Mr. Assad to step down, must make clear that Iran will not be allowed to continue with its adventurous policy in the region and that any instigation of war will come back to haunt the Iranian leaders themselves.
The dual tracks of negotiations and sanctions have failed to stop the radicals ruling Iran in their nuclear-bomb ambitions. Just today, Iran announced it has moved some of its centrifuges to an underground uranium-enrichment site that offers better protection from possible airstrikes. It is critical to global security that we act in time to stop the jihadists in Tehran from checkmating the world.
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who is a fellow with EMPact America and the author of “A Time to Betray,” about his double life in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, 2010).
Lets talk about our left
Remember Mofaz saying almost a year ago we should talk with a Hamas Representative
Now he says attack!
IMO we are heading for another war and the gas masks are not fully distributed
If they want one lets do it – we have nothing to be afraid of. It will be tough but we shall survive
After Durban 3 and Sept UN we stand alone – our actions will be more effective than platitudes!
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http://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/2011/08/conspiracy-to-use-nato-against-israel.html
During a visit to Israel in the spring of 2007, I kept asking people why G.O.I. hadn’t hit Damascus during the Lebanon-Hizbollah War of the previous summer. Never did get a sensible answer.
Haven’t given up hoping to get one, though.
When Barack Obama was campaiging he said he was all for staying out of other nations business–that the USA should stop ordering other nations around–as usual he was just lying! The US president has no place ordering the leader of any nation to step down–look at Egypt after Obama interfered–its far worse and will become even more so when the Muslim Brotherhood, i.e., the Muslim Nazis take over completely–and they will take over completely. Barack Obama is completely incompetent–it would be best if he kept his mouth shut–his meddling always makes things far worse!
It beggers belief,the representative from the UN in the region is calling on Israel to exercise maximum restraint.The lives of Israeli civilians are put at risk by a bunch of depraved terrorists, and we have to exercise restraint.When I see my neighbour I will remind her to act with restraint, you see she is an Aushwitz survivor living here in Israel,Israel her ancestral homeland,when I look out my window I can see little children playing in the sunshine of Israel, their ancestral homland, and they too must be taught to act with restraint,I am sure their parents will remind them from the bomb shelters to act with restraint.Should the children ever ask about the circumstances of my neighbour and Aushwitz, they will understand it came about by acting with restraint.As Edmund Burke said “all that needs to happen for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing” So should the situation arise that a terrorist is lurking near my neighbour or the children Mr.UN man, I will not be acting with restraint.
Today the poison dwarf of Iran has re stated his determination to (G-D forbid)eradicate Israel.This was done on Iranian and hizbullshit t.v.Do not hold your breath waiting for a reprimand from the UN.However we here in Israel have his ticket marked.The big question is who from the rest of the world is going to/prepared to/work with us.
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HAMAS FighterThe Israeli government explains its inaction in the wake of Hamas’ missile war against the Jewish state by citing Iran’s involvement. They expect Iran to step up the war if Israel does likewise, so they say it is better to swallow the blows. Wrong.
The Ayatollahs are decidedly cowardly, which is a particularly Iranian trait. They expand only where their enemies contract. When the Saudis firmly opposed them in Bahrain, for example, the Iranians backed down immediately.
The Israeli government invents wild stories of PIJ and PRC receiving 10,000 heavy rockets from Iran. That is impossible: smuggling through Africa and Sinai is far more complicated than border transfers from Syria to Hezbollah, which netted the terrorist group 50,000 missiles in five years. And unlike Hezbollah, PIJ and PRC have nowhere to hide their allegedly vast arsenals on the minuscule Gaza Strip.
It is silly to distinguish between moderate Hamas and radical PIJ. Both depend on Iran financially. Formal takeover of Gaza by PIJ, which would happen if we were to bomb Hamas out of power, would be a political boon for Israel, silencing the voices of peaceniks for years to come.
Another imagined problem is the possibility that Hezbollah might attack from the north if Israel were to move against Gaza. Hardly so. Hezbollah is now a governing party, which legitimizes broad Israeli reprisals against Lebanese targets. The last thing Hezbollah wants is to lose its hard-won political gains and popular support, which have already been jeopardized by the Hariri indictments. On the contrary, it would be in Israel’s interest to conduct a small war in Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah’s arsenals. In that war, we would enjoy the cooperation of Saudi Arabia; the Saudis would provide us with excellent intelligence on Hezbollah, which has traditionally been hard for our agencies to penetrate.
No one would listen, but we had a great opportunity to test our nuclear weapons and reestablish our reputation among our Arab enemies as a mad state.