Arab media reports said on Thursday that a convoy of Hezbollah vehicles was attacked in Syria near the Lebanese border on Wednesday by two missiles from an Israeli UAV which caused damage but no casualties since the target managed to escape before the blast.

Al-Arabiya reported on Thursday morning that one of the people in the convoy was Mustafa Mughniyeh, the son of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, who was eliminated in a 2008 car bombing by the Mossad and CIA.

Mustafa Mughniyeh is a senior Hezbollah commander and a leader in the terror movement’s operations and military apparatus in the Syrian Golan Heights.

Last week, Arab media reports said that Israel attacked Iranian military bases in Syria. What is going on?

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Tzvi Yechezkeli, a leading Arab affairs correspondent in Israel and head of the Arab desk at Channel 13 News, spoke on 103FM last week on the difficult situation in Iran due to the severe outbreak of the coronavirus.

“It’s hard to say that Iran is dealing with the coronavirus,” Yechezkeli said, explaining that there are no official Iranian government directives to its 100 million citizens.

“There’s no health minister or prime minister instructing its population on how to act and behave during this crisis. Iranian residents are trying to quarantine themselves and it’s interesting to see that they brought Hezbollah activists to help them because Iranian security forces are busy suppressing a revolt in the army. Iran and its security forces are busy maintaining their power. You could say that the coronavirus is a threat to the regime and they don’t care how many Iranians were harmed or will be harmed by the virus.”

“That leads to us to the question of whether Iran is now weaker,” Yechezkeli continued. “And you see that this week something happened that didn’t happen previously during the pandemic. According to foreign reports, Israeli forces attacked Iranian military bases in Syria again. Why did this happen this week? Because Israel believes that Iran is weaker now and that weakness also extends to its proxies in Lebanon and Syria. Israel knows that Iran is weaker due to the coronavirus.”

According to Yechezkeli, any country considering attacking Iran should take the opportunity to so now. “If they would ask me when to attack Iran, I would say now is its weak point and if someone is considering an attack, now is the time.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)