Israel's new government doubles warnings against Tehran after the election of "a brutal executioner"

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at an event in Jerusalem on Sunday. EFE

No one in Israel looks sympathetically at the Iranian regime, which wants to wipe the Jewish state off the face of the earth.

But the new prime minister, the ultranationalist Naftali Bennett raised the tone of the invectives against Tehran on Sunday so as not to detract from his predecessor in office, the conservative Benjamin Netanyahu, who he removed from power a week ago and who for 12 years served as They will be the axis of its foreign policy.

Not least expected, the election of the ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisí was received by Bennett as "an alarm signal for the powers that are negotiating to wake up" the reactivation of the nuclear agreement with Tehran.

Raisí, Bennett said at the beginning of the first ordinary council of ministers of his mandate, "is an executioner at the head of a brutal regime that wants to seize the atomic weapon."

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Before the prime minister expressed in English the redoubled accusations of Israel against the Iranian threat, the foreign minister and key partner of the new Executive, the centrist Yair Lapid, had already announced on Saturday through Twitter that Raisí is better known as "the butcher of Tehran." A hanging judge, he said, responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranians and "committed to the nuclear ambitions of the regime and its global campaign of terror." For Israel, the presence in Syria of troops from the Al Quds Force, the expeditionary corps of the Guardians of the Revolution, and their direct support to the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and indirectly to the Islamists of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, constitute the top priority of your defensive policy.

Bennett insisted that Magistrate Raisí has ​​been "responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent Iranian citizens" through the so-called "death committees that have ordered the executions of opponents" of the Islamic regime.

This time the Government of Israel stands on the side of humanitarian organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in denouncing the human rights violations attributed to the Iranian president-elect.

The prime minister also stressed that the new president had not been elected by the Iranian people, in view of the high abstention at the polls, "but appointed by the guidelines the supreme leader Ali Khamenei."

Shadow war

The nuclear agreement reached in 2015 with Tehran was signed with the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, with the assistance of the European Union, under the presidency of the Democrat Barack Obama, despite the rejection of the then Prime Minister Netanyahu. In Israel. Three years later, Republican Donald Trump suspended the pact and reactivated the sanctions on Tehran, in a "maximum pressure" strategy fully supported by the Israeli government. The outgoing director of Mosad (foreign espionage), Yossi Cohen, has recently acknowledged on Israeli television that his agents were involved in the theft of the Iranian nuclear archive in 2018 in Tehran and in operations against nuclear facilities in 2020.

Israel and Iran have engaged in a shadow war for decades, with covert operations such as the attack in which the father of the Iranian nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, died in November last year. But also in an increasingly fierce cyberwar as was found, also in 2020, in the sabotage of the computer system of the Iranian port of Shahid Rajai, in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, in alleged retaliation for the cyberattack registered against the computer network that controls the Jewish state water supply company.