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IDF chief: Reducing Iran’s influence more essential than defeating IS
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot says reducing Iran’s sphere of influence in the region is more important than defeating the Islamic State jihadist group.
Addressing the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense committee, Eisenkot says “decreasing Iranian influence in the areas near Israel’s borders is no less important than defeating IS, and for Israel perhaps even more.”
He says in the 11 years since the Second Lebanon War, Israel has significantly upgraded its operational and intelligence capabilities, and that it now has “capabilities it never had before.”
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