Israeli analyst: Israel must act before Iran and Hezbollah take over Syrian Golan | World Israel News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : By doing so, Tehran is playing the long game and avoiding any confrontation with the IDF for the time being.
54% : And while he did note that it would take Iran between two and three years to transform its Golan presence to "something with significant military capabilities," he urged Israeli lawmakers to wake up before "our front with Hezbollah doesn't extend from the Mediterranean Sea to the Hermon, but will go further south until the Jordan River."
51% : "If Israel does not act soon, Iran and Hezbollah will establish a significant military presence in the Golan," he concluded.
47% : Iran has inserted itself "into the Syrian army's nervous system - its chain of command - and into the everyday lives of the local population," Israeli commentator Ehud Yaari said.
47% : The concerns raised by the senior analyst are supported by a recent report published by a Turkish thinktank that claimed that Iran has doubled its presence in southern Syria's Golan Heights, while building military infrastructure in the region, specifically for a future conflict with Israel.
45% : Iran knows that once it erects a military outpost in the area, the IDF will not hesitate to strike," he explained.
42% : "Israeli efforts to disrupt, prevent or delay the deployment of Iran and Hezbollah in the Syrian Golan region has not been completely successful," Yaari said.
34% : He argued that Iran has been slowly assimilating itself in Syrian villages in the Golan and quietly overtaking units from the Syrian army.

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