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Iran Poses a Direct Threat to Israel in Red Sea

(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - Prof. Shaul Chorev, a rear admiral (ret.) who heads the Maritime Policy & Strategic Research Center at the University of Haifa, noted that last August, Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Bab al-Mandab strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. A third of Israel's global trade is with the Far East, Chorev noted, and billions of dollars' worth of Israeli imports and exports pass through Bab al-Mandab. "We are vulnerable there" and Iran "can directly target us," he said. Israel must formulate an overall strategy to face the threat "via a naval coalition with Western forces that operate in the area, or independently." Chorev, 72, who from 2007 until 2015 served as director-general of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, also warned that the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is not capable of thwarting any country's covert nuclear weapons program, and that there can be no certainty that Iran does not already have the bomb.
2019-08-13 00:00:00
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