Gallant: Israel has completed preparations for potential face-off with Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

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7 April 2024, 10:58 am

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Pic: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) meets with the chief of the IDF's Operations Directorate, Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk (center), and the chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, at his office in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel has “completed preparations for a response against any scenario that would develop against Iran.”

The remark is made following an assessment Gallant held with the chief of the IDF’s Operations Directorate, Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk, and the chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva.

Iran has threatened a response to the alleged assassination by Israel of its top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander in Syria, along with five other IRGC officers.