Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the increasing Iranian imperialistic aggression before and after his meeting with US President Joe Biden and made it clear that Israel would act alone against the Islamic Republic if necessary.
Let us first take a look at what’s happening close to the Israeli border on the Syrian Golan Heights.
Local independent Syrian media reported more than a month ago that the Syrian army together with Iranian-backed Shiite militias had started an offensive against the last rebel stronghold in southern Syria, the city of Dara’a where the uprising against dictator Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
The offensive is clearly meant to bring the Syrian Golan Heights and the Dara’a Province that borders on Jordan under direct Iranian control, since the Syrian army unit that is attacking the rebels is under full control of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the force tasked with exporting the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.
This Syrian army unit is the 4th Division and is led by Iranian officers.
The rebels in Dara’a have carried out numerous attacks on the Syrian army and its allies ever since the Syrian army regained control over southern Syria in the summer of 2018.
Ehud Yaari, a veteran Israeli TV commentator on Mideast affairs who works for Israel's Channel 12, was the first Israeli journalist who picked up the story of the assault on Dara’a. He warned that the offensive would be expanded to the Syrian Golan Heights as soon as the highway to the city comes under full control of the Iranian axis. READ MORE
