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IDF Sees Chance for Strikes on Iran Nuke Sites after Knocking Out Syria Air Defenses
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - The IDF believes there is an opportunity to strike Iran's nuclear facilities and the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has continued its preparations, military officials said Thursday. The IDF also believes that Iran may push ahead and develop a bomb as it scrambles to replace its deterrence. Iran is committed to Israel's destruction. Over the past year, it has twice fired massive barrages of missiles at Israel. After over a decade of evading air defenses over Syria during a campaign against Iran's supply of weapons to Hizbullah, the IAF said on Thursday that it had achieved total air superiority in the area, enabling safer passage for IAF aircraft to carry out a strike on Iran. Last week the IAF destroyed 86% of the former Assad regime's air defense systems. If in the past, the IAF would not fly directly over Damascus when striking Iran-linked targets in the capital, it now can. The IAF can also send surveillance drones over Damascus without them being shot down by advanced Russian-made air defense systems.