Iran threats cause stress in Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV, Israel.— “Let Iran attack us now and then we respond and that’s how this anxiety ends,” says Israeli Sima Cohen while shopping for Shabbat at the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv in the face of the cascade of promises of retaliation from Tehran that have caused stress in a country in tense anticipation of the imminent attack of its great enemy.

Iran, which has already managed to increase unrest in Israel, is hesitant regarding the type of response due in part to messages from the United States warning Iran “not to do it,” reports “El Mundo.”

Both Sima Cohen on the street and US Intelligence and the Israeli leadership meeting yesterday assume that Iran will respond to the death of seven Revolutionary Guard officers in an Israeli air attack in Damascus on April 1.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant; Minister Benny Gantz, and officials of the security agencies discussed not only the offensive in the south ( once morest Hamas in the Gaza Strip) and in the north (exchange of attacks with Hezbollah), but especially regarding the possibilities of retaliation Iranian and the response with scenarios of different severity, ranging from the continuity of the tense situation of mutual threats to the first open and frontal war between Israel and Iran following their long indirect and shadow duel.

“For years, and even more so during the war (with Hamas), Iran has been financing, directing and arming its proxies in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Iraq and Yemen to attack Israel and other countries in the region and not only in the region,” denounced Army spokesman Daniel Hagari.

Asked regarding a possible attack from Iranian territory in response to the bombing for which Israel did not claim responsibility, he answered that “it would be clear proof of Iran’s intentions to escalate the situation in the Middle East and stop hiding behind its proxies.”

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, for his part, hinted to his colleagues from Australia, Great Britain and Germany that there will be a reaction but in a limited way.

“Iran does not seek an escalation of hostility, but the return of sustainable security to the sensitive West Asian region is linked to controlling the war-mongering and deranged leaders of the Zionist regime and the viable cessation of this regime’s war crimes in Gaza. and the West Bank,” he wrote on the X network.

As the days go by, Iran seems more compelled to strike its enemy following the blows received by the Revolutionary Guard in the region.

Forced not only by the Israeli attack that killed, among others, the head of Al Quds in Syria and Lebanon, Brigadier General Mohamed Reza Zahedi, and his number two, Haji Rahimi, but because the intensity and echo of the promises of revenge did not They leave him another option before his people and the rest of the region.