"Someone" is trying to reach a bad deal with Iran over its nuclear program, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Wednesday, during a tour of the IDF's Hermon territorial brigade with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Without naming US President Barack Obama directly, who is currently leading talks with Tehran, the defense minister said that same "someone" is also "ignoring" Iran's widespread regional terrorist activities.
"We came here to see the consequences of the security reality," Ya'alon said. "Iran is trying – not just now, but recently more than in the past – to open a front against us on the Golan Heights. Iran is involved here in building terrorist infrastructure, in carrying out hostile action on the Golan Heights. This is Iran." The defense minister added that Iran is sending out tentacles to Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, recently to Yemen, and other places. Wherever it is involved, there is instability." He stated that the IDF is alert and ready for "any developments," and called on Israelis to visit the Hermon Mountain ski site.
Last month, an air strike that international media reports attributed to Israel killed 12 Iranian Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah operatives on the Syrian Golan. Western intelligence sources later said those targets were in the middle of setting up a base of terrorist operations against Israel, which included plans to fire anti-tank missiles, rockets, and launch cross-border raids into Israel.
Days later, Hezbollah carried out an ambush of IDF vehicles travelling two kilometers from the Lebanese border, killing two soldiers in a Kornet missile attack and destroying two IDF vehicles.