Professor Uzi Rabi, a senior researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, addresses the implications of Israel's historic strike in Iran and reveals Iran's difficult situation following Yahya Sinwar's decision to launch the October 7 attack.
In an interview with Radio 103FM, Rabbi said: "I think that in the end, Israel, in the simplest terms, has proven its capability as it knows how." On the other hand, she demonstrated Iran's interest as a transparent and infiltrated state in all matters related to air defense. It would not be an exaggeration to say that in the end, Israel exposed Iran's vulnerability in terms of security and air defense. In this regard, the Iranians have a lot to think about. 'From a high loft to a deep pit', that's what happened."
He said: "If I look at the big picture of Iran at the end of this year, and it's very symbolic, because as we finish the day of mourning according to the Hebrew calendar, it coincides with Israel's war with Iran." We already said at the beginning that Gaza is just the tip of the iceberg. We talked about the octopus, and we understood that this is the engine and this is the head.
Later in the conversation, Professor Rabbi explained what led Iran to its current strategic perception: "Let's set the record straight: Iran had a traumatic experience when it was born as an Islamic Republic – it's called the Iran-Iraq War – an eight-year war in which Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a bitter and reckless adversary of the Ayatollahs, bombarded Iran from morning till night and also used unconventional means against it. Iran has sworn that it will no longer be exposed in the turret, and it will keep for itself the doomsday weapon, which is the nuclear weapon. It will build a whole network of proxies in the style of Qassem Soleimani, a buffer between it and anyone who torments it, and it will improve its ballistics.
He explained that until 1988, Iran suffered relentless attacks on its territory, and for the first time since then, it experienced that trauma again with the Israeli Air Force's strike over the weekend: "The next time it happened to her was the day before yesterday." Iran has unraveled from a lot of energy it had accumulated, and a lot of infrastructure it had invested in for decades, and it watches helplessly as its efforts go to waste, and how the Palestinian issue, which interests it as much as a mustard seed because it is essentially an instrument, becomes what brought down Hassan Nasrallah and could also bring it down. Sinwar's decision created a wheel of events in which he does not control the pace of affairs.