Israeli leaders threaten plans to attack Iran are being accelerated
Leader of Israel's Blue and White electoral alliance Benny Gantz delivers a statement in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan, on March 7, 2020. threatened operationsThe Israeli Chief of Staff, Aviv Kohavi, told the country's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset that its "accelerating operational planning and preparedness to deal with Iran and the military nuclear threat.
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has vowed that the country will increase military spending in a bid to outspend Iran. Israeli politicians have announced that they want to spend more thanA clue of what that may mean in practice was revealed by Gantz, who in recent weeksthat "in the past year we've continued to act against our enemies in missions and secret operations throughout the entire Middle East.
Attempts to reach a deal could be hampered by the concessions that Tel-Aviv may want to pause attempts to attack Iran. Under the 2015 deal, signed under the Obama administration, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in return for lifting international sanctions.
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