Tzachi Hanegbi. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
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Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi claimed on Sunday in an interview with Army Radio that Israel has been the only country killing Iranians “for the past two years.”
“For two years now, Israel has been the only country in the world killing Iranians,” the Likud minister and member of the security cabinet said. “We have hit the Iranians hundreds of times in Syria. Sometimes they admit it, sometimes foreign publications expose the matter, sometimes a minister, sometimes the chief of staff. But everything is a coordinated policy.
“The Iranians are very limited in their responses, and it’s not because they do not have the capabilities, but because they understand that Israel means business,” Hanegbi said. “We are very firm on issues of national security.”Iran later hit back against Hanegbi’s comments, with PressTV tweeting “This is how Israelis are freely and proudly talking about killing Iranians, just imagine what would happen if it was the other way around!”
Also on Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has ordered an investigation into a strike against a Popular Mobilization Force’s (PMF) base this past weekend.
The strike against the base in the northern Iraqi province of Salaheddin reportedly killed several Iranian and Hezbollah fighters.
While initial reports suggested the strike was carried out by a drone, a PMF media official told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat that it was still unclear due to the extent of damage.
“We must await the results of the probe to find out what type of aircraft carried out the strike,” the unnamed official was quoted as saying, adding that “the strength of the rocket indicates that it was probably not fired by a drone.”
Iran later denied that any of its forces were killed in the strike, and that only two had been injured.
The attack hasn’t been claimed by any group and the United States denied as being behind the strike.
The US-led anti-ISIS Coalition also denied being behind the strike, putting out a statement saying that they were aware of reports “of an attack against the Iranians and a Popular Mobilization Force unit in Salah ad Din [governorate]. Coalition Forces were not involved, and we have no further information at this time.”
While Israel has also remained mum on the strike, both Israel and the US have warned that Iran and their proxy militias are the biggest threats to peace in the region and hope to weaken Iran’s growing influence across the Middle East and Persian Gulf.
Considered as the head of a snake, Israel has warned repeatedly that it would not allow for an Iranian presence in Syria and has admitted to hundreds of airstrikes to prevent the transfer of weapons such as ammunition to surface-to-air missile kits to Hezbollah in Lebanon the entrenchment of its forces on the Golan.
It is believed that Iran will attempt to entrench itself in Iraq, a mainly Shia Muslim country, as it did in Syria where they have managed to establish, shape and consolidate a solid parallel security structure in the country.
While there have been no reports of strikes in Iraq attributed to Israel, the Jewish State is reported to be behind an airstrike on the Syrian-Iraqi border last year near the town of Al-Bukamal which killed 22 members of a Shiite militia.
Iraqi troops have been working with the Hashd al-Shaabi (also known as Popular Mobilization Forces) militia fighters in the fight against IS militants in the country. The PMF, militias who were incorporated into Iraq’s security apparatus in 2016 to fight against the Islamic State group along with Iraqi and Kurdish forces, are directly financed and equipped by Iran.
In September Reuters reported that Iran had transferred ballistic missiles to Shiite proxies in Iraq over the course of several months and that it is developing the capacity to build more there. The missiles that were said to have been transferred include the Fateh-110, Zolfaqar, and Zelzal types, which have ranges of 200-700 km allowing them to be able to threaten both Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.
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