After the attack on the Iranian ship, and the accusations in Tehran that the State of Israel was responsible for the operation, we checked with experts what was required to carry out such an operation. "This is a relatively uncomplicated operation, a fact that the Iranians did when they hit the Israeli ship in the Gulf of Oman."
Reports in the American media as well as Iranian allegations reveal that according to a source or factors in the West and Iran, Israel has acted in the past two years against cargo ships and oil tankers that left Iran for Syria, to support weapons and oil in the Assad regime.
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We wanted to check with the experts what such an operation entails, but we encountered a thunderous silence from all the Israeli elements who understand a thing or two in the field.
However, a Navy source told Israel Today two years ago that "the State of Israel knows at any given moment about any vessel on the globe."
"We know all the movements of ships everywhere in the sea, and we track every suspicious vessel that is important for us to know what it is doing. Because ships move slowly, we have a collection of loads of resources both on land, in the sky and in space, and for any vessel that is interesting." We build a broad portfolio before it reaches the area and before it enters the IDF's operational target bank.
Sources linked to the navy at all levels declined to comment on the Iranian ship bombing affair.
The main argument of the sources was that "any reference to the issue, even theoretically, would be an indirect admission that Israel is involved in the explosion of the ships in some form."
However, a source in the defense establishment told Israel Today: "If we are talking about an action film in which, say, Malaysia has to attack another country, or Singapore wants revenge on the person who hit it, then as far as a merchant navy ship is concerned, it is a very easy operation." .
"A merchant navy ship is a slow vessel, moving at sea for a very long time, usually even if there is security on the vessel, then in relation to the army and even in relation to a terrorist organization that wants to set off these security forces are completely meaningless because they can not handle "Military force and not for that, they are on board."
"Therefore, sending a source to attach a mine to her is a very easy operation. The fact that the Iranians easily hit Rami Unger's ship in the Yemen area, they did so directly or through a terrorist organization, but it was not something unusual for them."
Navy man, author Col. Mike Elder, is not surprised by the complete silence in the country: "After hitting businessman Rami Unger's ship, I wondered why Israel is so blatantly silent, and why no Israeli factor is responding.
"Usually we are very aggressive with the Iranians and give them red lines, so then it was very strange and suspicious."
"Now it can be understood that this silence was based on a broader knowledge of the arena and what is happening in the region, and that we probably also put in Iranians. Therefore, there was silence, those who silenced knowledge that we will continue to harm and that Iranians probably have something to be angry about."
"Israel can organize an operation in which it sends a crew of 13 Sixty Squadron mines to a ship, and it can even be done in the destination port or in any parking on the way. Fleet crews can easily swim to a ship when it is in port and not be discovered, and there have been many such actions in the past. Therefore, it will not surprise me even if the flotilla did such a thing while the tankers were in Iran, because overall, as we have seen, Israel operates within Iran itself according to foreign publications. "
"It is important to note that if the mine was attached while the tankers were sailing, then it is already a more complicated and complex operation that may require more advanced technological tools. But the very ability to hit ships is not a complicated thing."