IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, during a visit to an intelligence command center, says Iran’s “sword they built over the years to harm us” is now being turned against them.
“The Military Intelligence Directorate has demonstrated extraordinary, thrilling capabilities. Every citizen of the country, the entire world, is looking at you with amazement and admiration. Everyone wants to learn how this happened,” Zamir says during a visit to the directorate’s Research Division yesterday, in remarks published by the IDF.
“What we are doing here is history, we are changing the face of the Middle East. The ring of fire, the sword they built over the years to harm us, we are now turning it back on them, into their land,” he says.
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