The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hebrew State, Yaïr Lapid, believes that there is a “real and immediate danger of assassination and kidnapping”.
Le Monde
The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yaïr Lapid, called on Monday, June 13, his nationals who find themselves in Turkey to leave “as soon as possible” this country for fear of Iranian attacks. “Following a series of attempts at Iranian terrorist attacks in recent weeks against Israelis on vacation in Istanbul, we call on Israelis not to take the plane for Istanbul and, (…) if you are already in Istanbul , return to Israel as soon as possible, “said Mr. Lapid on Twitter .
In recent weeks, the Israeli press has reported attempted attacks on Israelis in Turkey, citing sources that requested anonymity. These attacks would have been thwarted thanks to a collaboration between Israeli and Turkish security services, the two countries that have tightened their relations in recent months.
Evoking a “real and immediate danger of assassination and kidnapping”, Mr. Lapid said that “the life of several Israelis has been saved”. “I would like to thank the Turkish government for the efforts it deploys to protect the life of Israeli citizens,” he said, while warning Iran that “anyone causes the wrong to the Israelis in paying the price, we The tracksuit it doesn’t matter where they are “.
his number one enemy
Israel, who considers Iran as his number one enemy, opposes a revival of the 2015 International Agreement on Iranian nuclear – supposed to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring the atomic bomb in exchange for the Sanctions lifting its economy-, of which the United States had disengaged in 2018.
Considered by experts as the only nuclear power in the Middle East, Israel fears, among other things, that this agreement will reduce Iran’s chests which could thus increase, according to Israeli officials, its aid to allies regional like Lebanese Hezbollah or Palestinian Hamas, enemies of the Hebrew State.
Iran and Israel also engaged in a “shadow war” with cyber attacks, attacks at sea and accusations of assassinations. On May 22, Sayyad Khodaï, a tenor of the Quds force – the unity responsible for external operations within the Guardians of the Iranian Revolution – had been killed by Balle near Tehran. Iranian authorities accused Israel of being behind this murder and sworn to take revenge.
Israel has also multiplied, in recent years, the strikes against alleged positions of Iran in neighboring Syria, the Israeli army accusing Tehran in particular of transferring military equipment via Syrian soil, to its Lebanese ally of Hezbollah, In order to allow it to inflate its arsenal of precision missiles.
Last Friday, Israeli aviation bombed Damascus airport damaging a track, which has since been stopped. In the wake of this strike, the Israeli press accused Iran and Hezbollah of having recently started to circulate military equipment on commercial flights between Tehran and Damascus, in order to escape the Israeli strikes in Syria.