Iran preparing escalation on Golan – Ya’alon

18 August 2015, 3:10 pm

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The Golan Heights are likely to see growing conflict, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says Tuesday on a tour of the northern border together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and IDF Northern Command chief Aviv Kochavi.

“All is not quiet on the Golan front,” says Ya’alon, “and those who seek for it not to be quiet are the Iranians, who are trying to send proxies to conduct terror attacks against us.

From right, Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on a tour of the northern border, August 18, 2015. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO) — From right, Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on a tour of the northern border, August 18, 2015. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

“Representatives of the [Iranian] Revolutionary Guards are in fact waiting for the implementation of this bad [nuclear] deal with world powers, in order to bring more money to Hezbollah, more to other terror groups – in both the Golan Heights and the Palestinian arena.”