Israel will remove the entire Shiite axis threat led by Iran and Hezbollah, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said Tuesday night during a visit to an IDF air defense command center.
During a visit with Air Defense Chief Brig. Gen. "K" to Battalion 947 of the air defense apparatus, Zamir said that the current conflict has morphed from seeking regime change in Iran to also finishing off Hezbollah as a decades-long threat to Israel.
"This is one axis, a Shiite axis," he emphasized. For decades, and even more intensely since 2017, Iran sought to encircle Israel with a "ring of fire" to weaken and possibly destroy it.
Israel strong enough to fight two fronts, says Zamir
But now Zamir said that Israel is strong enough to fight on two fronts to bring the two most dangerous pieces of the ring of fire and the anti-Israel Shiite axis to their knees.
As part of this battle, Zamir said that the IDF's stellar air defense and resilient general public are critical.
Only by avoiding major harm to the home front can the IDF continue to take apart Iran's regime and Hezbollah's source sof power that remained with it following the 2023-2024 conflict with the Lebanese terror group.