Good article...
Israel strikes back at Iranian aggression, while Iran lies and pretends it won a victory
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/...n-victory.html
Israel responded forcefully early Thursday to about 20 Iranian missiles launched from Syria just after midnight local time against the Jewish state – and handed Iran a painful lesson in strategic deterrence.
Israeli warplanes and missiles hit about 70 Iranian military targets in Syria and killed an undetermined number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps fighters and Syrian soldiers, according to early reports.
Iranian boasts about the invincibility and power of their forces were exposed as one more lie in the long series of lies by the Islamic Republic....
...So far, the reaction in Tehran to the new outbreak of fighting has been strangely muted.
There is always the possibility that Iran could strike out massively against Israel – unleashing the 150,000 rockets it has supplied to Hezbollah in Lebanon and ordering its proxies in Gaza to launch waves of children to assault Israel border posts in the hopes of provoking a massacre. However, I suspect that fear of a massive Israeli attack on Iran itself will keep the Iranians in check.
Why? Because Israel has been laying the groundwork through strategic deterrence well before this latest skirmish.
The astonishing intelligence coup of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence service in spiriting away Iran's Atomic Archive from highly secure vaults in downtown Tehran spooked Iran's leaders. That Mossad could strike in Tehran itself, at the most carefully guarded secrets of the regime, has shaken Iran's leaders to the core.
The intelligence triumph also made Iranian leaders appear weak in front of their own people. Israel's new strikes inside Syria have accentuated that impression of weakness.
Iranian Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleymani is trying to spin the attacks on Israel as a great Iranian victory. This is absurd......