Iran Netanyahu: We are changing the face of the Middle East
According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel is in the process of "changing the face of the Middle East" following the fall of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad.
10.12.2024, 02:17
SDA
Israel is defeating its enemies "step by step" in a "war of existence that was forced upon us", Netanyahu told the press in Jerusalem this evening. Assad's Syria had been "the most important link in Iran's axis of evil". It had stirred up hatred towards Israel, attacked it in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was a "weapons pipeline" from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon, he said.
The collapse of the Syrian regime was a "direct result of the heavy blows" that Israel had dealt to the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Shia militia Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran, Netanyahu said. However, Iran's "axis of evil" had not yet disappeared. But "we are in the process of changing the face of the Middle East", said Netanyahu. "The state of Israel is establishing itself as a center of power in our region in a way that has not been the case for decades." According to activists, Israel has been flying heavy attacks in Syria since Assad's fall.
