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TEL AVIV: While Israel anxiously awaits a Biden Administration, it has made operational a new command focused entirely on Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Naetanyahu is repeating — again and again — his intention to stop Iran from achieving a nuclear capability: “Israel will not allow Iran to have the bomb.”
The IDF says that the new Iran Command is needed to accumulate intelligence and operational options in one place, to understand how new weapon systems like the F-35 can be used efficiently should hostilities with Iran break out, and how new relations with some Gulf states might change those scenarios.
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The new command will be directly responsible for preparing strike plans against Iran. In recent years Israel has invested roughly $3 billion in what is dubbed as “getting ready for a war with Iran.” Details of this investment are highly classified.
The UAE and Bahrain met with Israelis recently and expressed their concerns about the potential of Iranian aggression, especially is it develops a military nuclear capability.
The Israeli defense establishment expects that within weeks they will begin a series of talks with Biden’s inner circle to stop the guessing and really understand the elected president’s policies relevant to Jerusalem.
Earlier this month, Iran unveiled a new missile launch system capable of consecutively launching multiple, long-range ballistic missiles. Teheran claims the automated launcher was locally developed and manufactured. With Iran continuing to heavily invest in new weapons, Israel is getting ready to act.
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