The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing to strike at Iran's nuclear program sites. The Israeli army command considers the fall of the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the weakening of pro-Iranian groups in the Middle East as a favorable opportunity to carry out this task.
The Times of Israel reported this, citing sources.
According to the publication, Jerusalem suggests that Iran, isolated after the fall of Assad and the weakening of its proxy groups, may continue its nuclear program and develop a nuclear bomb.
Therefore, the Israeli army continues to increase the combat readiness of its aviation for potential strikes on targets in Iran.
And while US intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claim that Iran had an organized nuclear program until 2003, Israel claims that the Islamic republic has never truly abandoned its nuclear weapons program.
Assad's fall marked the complete superiority of Israeli aviation
On Thursday, the Israeli Air Force said that after more than a decade of countering air defenses in the skies of Syria, the Israeli army had managed to achieve complete air superiority.
Such air superiority over Syria could ensure safe passage for Israeli Air Force aircraft to strike Iran.
According to the military, Israeli aircraft destroyed 86% of the Syrian army's air defense systems and 47 radars. Among them were two russian-made air defense systems that were causing problems for the Israeli Air Force.
"The Syrian air defense system is one of the strongest in the Middle East, and the strike on it is a significant achievement for the superiority of the Air Force in the region," the publication quotes an excerpt from the IDF statement.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in late October it became known that as a result of the air attack on Iran on October 25, the Israeli army deprived Iran of strategic opportunities for the next two to three years.
Later, the Axios portal wrote, citing sources, that during the attack on Iran on October 25, the IDF destroyed a key facility in Iran's nuclear program.
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