Zvi Yehezkeli, Channel 13's Arab affairs jouralist, on Friday warned that Iran will place Israel on its list of targets due to the US elimination of Revolutionary Guards leader Qassem Soleimani.
Yehezkeli has said several times, during interviews with 103 FM Radio, that Israel should eliminate Soleimani, who was the most powerful Iranian after Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself.
"I would hit the head of this terror arm," he said. And on Thursday night, it happened: Soleimani and six others were killed in a US drone strike in Iraq.
"I'm happy someone listened to my advice," Yehezkeli told 103 FM on Friday morning. He emphasized: "It wasn't Israel - it was [US President Donald] Trump who at the end of the day banged on the table and said, 'No more!' Soleimani was the one responsible for Iran's expansion in the Middle East over the past decade. He's the same person who built entire armies within the countries of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen - and he's the person who is connecting and turning all the Arab countries into a Shiite army. Therefore, it was only expected that someone who wanted to make order would need to start with his head."
According to Yehezkeli, Soleimani was "the most important political-military figure in Iran after Khamenei himself, if not his equal. The US essentially eliminated Iran's military and political president at the same time. There's no question, he's on the level of Ali Khamenei."
Yehezkeli also warned that there would be a response from Iran: "The elimination is an event on a scale such as we have not seen in the Middle East for a long time," he tweeted. "The Iranians are in shock. Soleimani felt very free and easy in Iraq. He did not think the Americans would eliminate him, and he did not take precautions." READ MORE
