Iran-Israel proxy conflict

Iran–Israel proxy conflict

Israel (Orange) and Iran (Dark Green) in the Middle East

Date

3 August 2005 – present

Location

Middle East

Status

Ongoing:

Iran reinforces Syria and Hezbollah.
Israel tries to prevent weapon transfers to Hezbollah.
2006 Lebanon War ends in military stalemate.
Beginning of Gaza–Israel conflict in June 2006.
Israel tries to stop Iranian nuclear program.
Iran grows a sphere of influence in the Middle East.

Belligerents

Iran

Israel

Proxies:

Hezbollah
Hamas (2006–2011)
PIJ
PFLP
(2013–present)

Proxies:

Supported by:

Syria
Sudan(Until 2015)

Supported by:

United States

Commanders and leaders

Ali Khamenei
(Supreme Leader of Iran)

Hassan Rouhani
(President of Iran)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(2005–2013)

Hassan Nasrallah
(Secretary-General of Hezbollah)

Khaled Meshaal
(Hamas leader)

Benjamin Netanyahu
(Prime Minister of Israel)

Ehud Olmert (2006–2009)

Ongoing:

Iran

Israel

Proxies:

Supported by:

Supported by:

The Iran–Israel proxy conflict, or Iran–Israel proxy war, is the ongoing proxy war between Iran and Israel. The conflict is bound in the political struggle between Iranian leadership and Israel, with the counter aim of Israel to prevent alleged nuclear weapons from the Iranian government and downgrading its allies and proxies such as Hezbollah party in Lebanon. Iranian forces are operating in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad's government.

According to Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, "As long as the current regime exists, with the nuclear agreement or without it, Iran will continue to serve as the main threat to Israel's security".

Israel suspects Teheran is pursuing the goal of forming a continuous land bridge from Iran (through Iraq and Syria) to Lebanon, and if Tehran succeeds "it would be a strategic game-changer." In the Syrian Civil War, hoping to bolster its logistics and force projection capabilities in the area, Tehran aims to clear a path from the Iranian capital to Damascus and the Mediterranean coast. Israeli government is convinced that Iran is interested in creating territorial contiguity from Iran to the Mediterranean and in transferring military forces – including naval vessels, fighter planes and thousands of troops – to permanent bases in Syria and is trying to "Lebanonize" Syria and take over using Shi'ite militias, as it had done with Hezbollah in Lebanon.Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned “everything possible will be done to prevent the existence of a Shi’ite corridor from Tehran to Damascus”. Israeli intelligence discovered an Iranian base being built in Syria just 50 km from the Israeli border.

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