JERUSALEM, July 23 (NNN-ARAB NEWS) – An Israeli minister, boasted that, his country was the only one that “has been killing Iranians,” after tensions between Britain and Iran rose in the Gulf.
Regional Cooperation Minister, Tzachi Hanegbi’s comments were a reference to Israeli strikes in neighbouring Syria against Iranian and Hezbollah military targets.
But they came after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker on Friday, adding to tensions between Washington and Tehran, linked to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Hanegbi accused Iran, Israel’s main enemy, of seeking to create “chaos” and “harm freedom of navigation.”
Asked if he feared that Israel would not receive the backing of the United States, in the case of a conflict with Iran, Hanegbi suggested that Tehran would avoid such a scenario.
“Israel is the only country in the world that has been killing Iranians for two years,” he said.
“We strike the Iranians hundreds of times in Syria. Sometimes we acknowledge it and sometimes foreign reports reveal it.”
Israel carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria, against what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah military targets.
It vowed to keep Iran from entrenching itself militarily there.
Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke in a similar vein last week. “At the moment, the only army in the world to fight Iran is the Israeli army,” he said.– NNN-ARAB NEWS
