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“What we’ve done so far — I don’t want to call it a complete failure, but our operational successes have not yet brought the desired results,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and research fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies. “And our options aren’t good, either.”

With Iran considerably weakened, the biggest question for Israel now surrounds the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, argues Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, a Tel Aviv think tank. “Tehran could theoretically enrich uranium to a military-grade level of 90 percent ‘as early as tomorrow’ and attempt to build a nuclear facility...

Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, said that after Assad’s fall, “the biggest question mark concerns Iran’s nuclear program.” “Tehran could theoretically enrich uranium to a military-grade level of 90% as early as tomorrow and attempt to build a nuclear device within a few months,” Citrinowicz wrote in Ma’ariv this week. “This...

By moving troops into the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, Israel’s military aims to improve its position in case of any surprise attack on the Israeli-held Golan Heights, said Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli military intelligence official. “What they are trying to do is improve the Israeli military’s capabilities to counter any attack that might come to the Golan...

The fall of Assad is another nail in the coffin of Iran’s Axis of Resistance, which will prompt Tehran to reconsider its security strategy. In a matter of weeks, Iran lost its pillars in the Axis of Resistance. After the heavy blow that Hezbollah suffered at the hands of Israel, the fall of Assad is a fatal strike on Iran’s influence efforts in the Middle East. There is of...

Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, told AFP that while it was true Israel helped precipitate events in Syria, Assad's fall was an unintended consequence. "It's obvious that what Israel did has definitely led to that, but I doubt that they had a strategy to do so," he said.