Israel defeats make Iran war impossible
Israel’s military and intelligence failures during its aggression on Lebanon in 2006 attest to the regime’s inability to engage in a military confrontation against a more powerful Iran, a political analyst tells Press TV.
After the Israeli regime launched the assault, “the resistance (movement) in Lebanon, which was supported by Iran, was able to actually hit targets deep inside Israel and this capacity has become more sophisticated today since 2006,” Omar Nashabi, a judicial affairs expert from Beirut, said in an exclusive interview with Press TV.
In July 2006, Israel launched an all-out offensive on southern Lebanon, triggering what became known as the 33-Day War and killing about 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians.
The Hezbollah resistance movement, however, repelled the Israeli attacks and Tel Aviv suffered a humiliating defeat after the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 demanded that the Zionist regime withdraw all its forces from Lebanon.
Nashabi added that war also illustrated “very clearly” the deficiencies in Israel’s intelligence apparatuses, and further touched upon the economic consequences of a potential confrontation with Iran.
“On the economic level, I think the consequences are even bigger, because this will create a regional instability and the region instability will make it difficult for the Western countries and other industrial powers to get the oil, and the prices of oil will increase.”
Nashabi described the warnings of former director of Israel’ s Mossad spy agency Meir Dagan against a strike on Iran as very telling, adding that Dagan knows a war with Tehran “will threaten the American interests in the region and also Western interests in general.”
On November 29, Dagan said a military engagement against Iran would take a heavy toll in terms of lost lives and would paralyze life in Israel.
"I’m concerned about possible mistakes and I prefer to speak out before there is a catastrophe," Dagan had warned.
Nashabi further said that Israel would not have the support of its Western allies, if it ventures to attack Iran. “I do not think the Americans would engage in another war against Iran, that has a vaster territory, that has more power, that has a solid regime, and that has the support of great powers,” he said.
“This is a total different situation with when they invaded Iraq,” Nashabi argued.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and have used this pretext to push for the imposition of sanctions as well as to call for an attack on the country.
Tehran has categorically refuted such allegations as “baseless” and promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.
Source: presstv.com
