24 hours later Iran attacks Israelglobal concern is at its peak. This same Wednesday, the Chief of General Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Herzi Halevi, warned that the country has sufficient military capabilities to attack “any point” in the Middle East. For his part, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, warned that he would not support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent offensive launched by Iran, which fired nearby 200 missiles against Israeli territory, leaves many doubts. How will Israel respond? What is Benjamin Netanyahu doing at this time? How far will this spiral of attacks and counterattacks go?
For now, Israel’s message is clear: they will take revenge on Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already declared this before Iran carried out these attacks on Tuesday afternoon. He stressed that the military operations that his country has carried out in recent months in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon go against “The axis of evil in Iran“.
After the Iranian attacks With hundreds of ballistic missiles, Israel confirms this statement from the day before and adds that “we are at the height of a difficult war against the Iranian axis of evil”.
Israel warns: “We know how to attack with precision and force”
This same Wednesday, the Chief of General Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Herzi Halevi, warned that the country has sufficient military capabilities to attack “any point” in the Middle East.
“And to those of our enemies who have not yet understood it, they will understand it soon,” said Halevi, who assured that the Israeli army would respond to the Iranian offensive. “We know how to locate important targets, we know how to attack with precision and force,” he added.
For his part, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, warned that he would not support an Israeli attack. against Iranian nuclear facilitiesin case this happens in retaliation for Iranian missile launches.
“The answer is no,” he replied on Wednesday when asked by the press about a possible attack on Iranian territory by Israel, also adding that he would discuss with Israeli authorities a response to Iran’s actions.
In this sense, Biden assured that he would speak “relatively soon” with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and that he would be “in permanent contact” with the “Bibi” team, in reference to his nickname.
Where will Israel strike?
Now all eyes are on Israel’s response to the Iranian attacks. According to the experts consulted by laSexta, there are three main possibilities on where Netanyahu will strike. First of all, a minimal revengewith very limited attacks against civilian infrastructure for example.
The second possibility would be revenge of the maximums against nuclear facilities that would bring us to a horizon of total war, a madness that even his greatest ally, Joe Biden, does not support. And finally, the intermediate optionand what Netanyahu’s people are betting on: attacks on Iranian refineries and oil networks.
An ideal target would be the island of Kharg, at the crucial end of the Persian Gulf. Tiny but from where 90% of Iranian crude oil is exported. Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Óscar Vara, explains that this “would have a huge impact on the global economy withthe price of oil increases between 20 and 50%“.
This would be a red line for the ayatollahs’ regime. Then they would burn those across the region: Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Emirates, Bahrain.
Israel would see this as a unique opportunity, experts explain, to change the order in the Middle East and position themselves as hegemonic, but before that they will wait to know who will live in the White House because, according to the journalist of “The World Order”, Fernando Arancón, “if it is Donald Trump, he knows that he will be able to support on the accelerator.” At Netanyahu’s feet remains the decision whether to step on it or not.
