(Newswire.net — January 22, 2015) — Former deputy head of the Israeli Defense Forces, Major General Eyal Ben Reuven, today accused the Iran senior military figures killed by Israeli air force, of meeting to plot an attack on Israel. Explaining the attack, major Reuven was citing the intelligence reports that claims top Hezbollah and Iranian commanders were meeting to discuss a plan to invade Galilee.
Amid Iranian vendetta threats, Israel deployed troops and anti-missile defense systems at its northern border claiming their intelligence confirmed that Iran would attack. Major Reuven added that the Iranian commanders’ decision to meet in Syria could mean that a ‘high-level’ and ‘sophisticated’ attack on Israel’s northern border is ‘imminent’.
A research group known as The Israel Project came to a similar conclusion, saying that the presence of Tabatabai ‘probably indicates operations aimed at overrunning Israeli border towns.’ Tabatabai is surname of Arabic and Persian origin. According to Wikipedia, it is one of many families from the descendants of Hasan ibn Ali, the second imam of Shias, populated mostly in Iran, but also in Iraq and Lebanon.
Expectantly, Iran has promised a ‘crushing response’ to the weekend strike, without disclosing exactly what action will be taken.
“These martyrdoms proved the need to stick with jihad. The Zionists must await ruinous thunderbolts,” the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards General Mohammad Ali Jafari said. “We will not rest easy until this epitome of vice is totally deleted from the region’s geopolitics,” he added.
Iranian officials denied that commanders were planning any kind of attack. Officials said they were in Syria to advise the government on how to fight IS extremists, who control much of the country’s north.
Israel has not officially accepted responsibility for airstrikes, however, they didn’t deny being responsible either. The killing of Hezbollah and Irans military officers has raised tensions in the already tensed relations between two countries.
Israel has already been carrying out a series of controversial airstrikes in Syria, which it says are to prevent rocketing from Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Israel officials accused Iran for passing missiles to Hezbollah and Iranian officials accuse Israel of provoking the war.
Hezbollah has previously used such missile stockpiles to attack Israel from Lebanon, such as in the brief by bloody 33-day war between the two countries in 2006.
Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, had already called the strikes “a major aggression” warning that Hezbollah has a “right to respond”.
The attack took place in the Syrian-controlled portion of the Golan Heights region.