Katyusha Attack: Iranian Reaction or Message to Syria!
A weekend rocket attack on Israel from southern Lebanon was seen as an Iranian reaction to remarks by hawkish Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu who has named Tehran as Israel”s main threat.
The daily An Nahar on Sunday quoted high-ranking officials up-to-date with Saturday”s incident as saying that evidence show that the motive behind the rocket attack that injured three Israeli people was "an Iranian response to Netanyahu”s remarks."
Netanyahu”s statement on Friday came after accepting the task of forming a new government in the wake of the tight elections.
"Iran is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon and constitutes the gravest threat to our existence since the war of independence," Netanyahu said at a ceremony at President Shimon Peres”s official residence.
"The terrorist forces of Iran threaten us from the north," he said in reference to Lebanon and Syria, where Israel says Tehran supplies arms to Hizbullah and Hamas.
The sources told An Nahar that the rocket attack could also possibly be a "message" to Damascus, which at the time of the assault was receiving U.S Senator John Kerry as the new U.S administration reviews its policies towards such states in the Middle East.