Illustrative image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Announcing the start of what appears to be an new military campaign, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on June 27 that he had instructed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to “prepare an enforcement plan against Iran that includes maintaining Israel’s air superiority, preventing nuclear advancement and missile production, and responding to Iran for supporting terror activity against Israel.”
“We will act regularly to thwart such threats,” the minister in a post on X, summarizing the IDF’s activities during the 12-day war against Iran.
“I suggest the defanged head of the snake in Tehran, understand and beware: Operation Rising Lion was only the preview of a new Israeli policy, after October 7, immunity is over,” he added.
Israel started the war on June 13 with the goal of crippling Iran’s nuclear program. After gaining aerial superiority over the western and central regions of the Islamic Republic, the IDF expanded its target list to include offensive capabilities.
A ceasefire was suddenly announced on June 24, just two days after the United States joined the war by attacking three key nuclear sites in Iran.
Now, Katz’s remarks indicate that Israel wants to build up on what it sees as a major success by starting a “war-between-the-wars” against the Islamic Republic.
The Israeli term war-between-the-war refers to an inter-war campaign done through the IDF and the Israeli intelligence service to prevent the country’s enemies from developing capabilities that will enable them to violate Israel’s balance of deterrence through detecting and selectively destroying emerging threats to the country’s security.
Israel followed a similar policy towards Syria, targeting the country’s military capabilities overtly and covertly for over a decade until the regime there collapsed. It has been also carrying out a similar campaign against Hezbollah since a ceasefire with Lebanon brokered by the U.S. came into effect late last year.
The situation with Iran is, however, much different. While Syria refrained from responding due to its ongoing civil war at the time, and Hezbollah is doing the same due to pressure from the Lebanese government, the Islamic Republic has demonstrated time after time that it has both the ability and will to strike back.
For example, Iran is still holding onto its nuclear program. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on June 27 that a bill suspending cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog is now “binding” after being passed by lawmakers and approved by a top vetting body.
“The bill that was approved by [parliament] and has been approved by the Guardian Council today… is binding on us and there is no doubt about its implementation,” he told state television. “From now on, our relationship and cooperation with the [International Atomic Energy] Agency will take a new form.”
Nevertheless, determination alone will not be enough to foil Israel’s plans. Even retaliatory strikes won’t cut it. If Iran wants to survive the upcoming Israeli campaign it will have to develop its defensive capabilities, even before working on enhancing its offensive means.
Without closing its airspace and implementing security reforms, the Islamic Republic could eventually find itself with nothing to strike back with.
Katz’s remarks are very clear. Iran should prepare to face assassinations, acts of sabotage and even strikes in coming months. At the same time, it should give diplomacy a fair chance, especially by working with the United States, Russia and China who could curb the enthusiasm of Israel.
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all of this pseudo diplomacy is smoke and mirrors. in iran’s case, one can hardly call systematic targeted assassinations a “shadow “ war. even before this recent hot war, israel was and is permanently at war with iran. and the west now has a permanent war posture against brics, especially iran, russia, and china.
international law & norms have already been dismantled. the so called era of neoliberalism that was ushered post ww2 to serve american’s hegemonic aims has been replaced with gun boat neo-feudalism. the new doctrine adopted by the emerging eastern countries and brics is that the west’s war posture is permanent as a result of their containment strategy against china and its interests.
neoliberalism did not appear until 1970 in us and vassal policies. the post-war welfare state was the opposite of neoliberalism. the bretton woods system erected by the us was in place until approximately 1970, at which point it was dismantled and replaced with neoliberalism in the context of us imperialism.
neoliberalism started officially post ww2 in order to stimulate the economies but it saw a major ramp up in the 70’s due to stagflation. either way, that is gone. we have a new feudalist, neo imperialist model of all out warring, gun-boat diplomatic posture of “do as we say or we sabotage and terrorize your country”
defense minister israel katz said “thanks you iranian dumbasses we were almost out of missile interceptors and we needed to reload. now that we have we are ready to start fighting again but we just need to finish preparing another decapitation strike so give us about a month.”
took decades for the jewish supremacist organized crime enclave in palestine to let fly with their murder binge. they won’t be ready again in a month.
they’ve only just begun… and as a taxpayer to pox americana -so proud of our potu$ “0range shanker. “trump says he would bomb iran again ‘without question’ & not looking to drop sanctions anymore”… because the stress of being blackmailed by compromising videos screwing under age children by your “parasite”… and the onset of tertiary syphilis makes him “crazy”!….
yeah looks like iran got fucked up real good. iran no longer has effective air defense, no enrichment, no enriched uranium no airforce and very few ballistic missiles left. serves them right idiots. nice guys finish last. hehehe.
the tel aviv stock exchange kept going up after october 7, 2023 and barely flinched during the 12 day war. whatever got destroyed in israel will be rebuilt quickly with us dollars
doesn’t look like that at all to someone whose perspective isn’t trying to look past their boyfriend’s nutsack. what a tragedy that iran lost some f-5’s and f-14’s. canada, a third-rate imperial satrapy retired their f-5’s three decades ago. the f-14 went out of service two decades ago. a snapshot of ongoing jewish supremacist swindling hardly entails an assessment of strategic outcomes. thanks for derping, shitcock.
even if iran had had su-57s, su-35s, tu-160, tu-22s, or tu-95 they would have been all destroyed.
just look what we did to you cabroncito, way far inside your crapper in siberia.
und ficken putein und ficken xi kingpin.
fuckers
“give diplomacy a fair chance?”. ha ha ha.