Israeli defence minister, Benny Gantz, and foreign minister, Yair Lapid, told ambassadors of countries belonging to the UN security council that Israel was ready to act against Iran after a suspected Iranian attack on an Israeli-managed oil tanker at the end of July.
Gantz said that now was the time for deeds and not words, as without a firm response from the international community the attacks on shipping would only get worse. He added that Iran was only 10 weeks away from having enough enriched Uranium for a nuclear weapon.
Gantz blamed the attack on the oil tanker specifically on Saeed Ara Jani who is the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s unmanned aerial vehicle (Drone) division.
The Iranian intervention in Syria, support for Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon has seen dramatically worsening relations between the two nations. Suspected Israeli assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and air strikes against Iranian troops in Syria have only deepened hostility between the two sides in recent years.