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A week ago Israel launched its major offensive against Iran, and the attacks have continued since then. In an interview, the German-Israeli political scientist Arye Sharuz Shalicar answers what long-term plan the Israelis are pursuing.
Israeli fighter jets have one on Saturday and Sunday night new wave of attacks against military infrastructure launched in Iran. Recent targets were several oil depots in the capital Tehran. Israel has been taking massive action against Iran for more than a week. In an interview with FOCUS online, the German-Israeli exiled Iranian, political scientist and author, Arye Sharuz Shalicar, analyzed what long-term plan the Israelis have in place Iran track. The main goal is to “eliminate” Iran’s “three existential threats,” said the expert.
Threat 1: Iran regime is “head of the snake”
He explained: “The existential threat from Iran – these are actually three existential threats that come from Iran. It is not for nothing that the Islamic regime is also called the ‘head of the snake’. It has founded several proxies around Israel – such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Shiite militias, Sunni militias in the region – which have also been attacking Israel from different directions since October 7, 2023. With the aim, of course, of bringing Israel to its knees to coerce and extinguish. That is one issue, i.e. the proxies of the Islamic regime.”
Threat 2: Strong ballistic missile industry
The second existential threat is Iran’s strong ballistic missile industry and development. Shalicar: “In the last few days we have seen that missiles from Iran are not only hitting Israel, but also the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and even Cyprus and Azerbaijan. And this missile development must be completely destroyed as far as possible.”
Threat 3: Iran’s quest to be a nuclear power
Shalicar cited nuclear enrichment as a third threat. “The aim of the regime is to become a nuclear power. It would simply be unthinkable that a regime that could not be more Islamofascist would come into possession of nuclear weapons.”
His conclusion: “These are three threats that Israel has unfortunately been aware of every day for decades. And now hopefully the day has finally come when all three threats can be repelled to such an extent that in the future – when Iran is on its own again and the people there hopefully take the reins into their own hands – then Israel will no longer face an existential threat. Instead, hopefully one day it will be able to do good things in the region side by side in peace with Iran.”
