The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, said that great fears accompanied by a state of anticipation and caution prevail in the Middle East, fearing that the outgoing US President, Donald Trump, would attack Iran during his remaining few days in the White House.
And the newspaper added in a report, that next week will not be completely calm in the Middle East, as there are only nine days left for US President Joe Biden to enter the White House, but in this time period, Iran still fears an American military strike against it.
She stressed that "although this scenario does not seem logical for Israel, the leaders of the security apparatus are concerned about the possibility of a miscalculation that could lead to an unplanned military escalation that could negatively affect Israel."
And she pointed out that "the level of fear among the Iranians rose further after the attack on the Capitol building last Wednesday, which intensified Trump's behavior and pushed him into a corner and again ignited attempts to isolate him."
Read also: Bloomberg: Israel will thwart Biden’s efforts to return to the nuclear agreement. Before the chaos that occurred in Congress, American newspapers covered scenarios about a possible last Trump operation in the Middle East, while American fears also grew of Iranian retaliatory steps against the backdrop of the first anniversary of the assassination of the Iranian Guard commander, General Qassem Soleimani at the hands of the Americans, who was killed in Iraq at the beginning of January of last year. The newspaper stressed that "the Israeli army is preparing exceptionally for fear of any escalation, as it has deployed a Patriot battery in Eilat, and notes an unusual presence of warplanes in every sectors, as Israel is preparing to repel any possible attack against it using missiles, missiles and drones by organizations operating under the direction of Iran.” According to the newspaper.
The preparedness includes a large number of arenas, including Syria and Lebanon in the north, Iraq in the east and Yemen in the south, and this preparedness, according to Haaretz, is linked to possible retaliatory steps by Iran, as it is attributed to Israel for helping in the assassination of Soleimani, in addition to the assassination of the head of its military nuclear project, Professor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. , near Tehran last November.