In Israel the Alert is maximum in the face of a possible and imminent attack by Iran or its allies after Israeli forces killed seven important Iranian members last Monday in the country’s consulate in the Syrian capital, Damascus. This has been made known by the Israeli government, which, despite the situation of extreme tension, has called for calm among the population.

However, the images that Israelis see and that show the cry of revenge from Iran They don’t help maintain it either.. During the funeral of the seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who were killed, among whom was Mohammed Reza Zahedileader of Iran’s Foreign Revolutionary Guard, the link between the ayatollah regime and Hezbollah and Syria.

This attack is the trigger for Tehran threatening and tension in the area has increased. The head of the Revolutionary Guard has assured that “Israel will be buried in Gaza”. “The Zionist regime breathes thanks to the special political, security and psychological care unit of the United States; when this western artificial respiration device be removed from the nose of the Zionist regime, it will collapse, and this is close,” he said.

Faced with these words, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has given an equally incendiary response: “We will know how to defend ourselves”. “For years, Iran has been acting against us both directly and through its allies. Therefore, Israel will act against Iran and its allies, both defensively and offensively. “We will know how to defend ourselves and we will act according to the simple principle that whoever harms us or plans to harm us, we will harm him.”

In short, exchanges of messages, warnings from one side and the other that have led to Israel reinforces its state of alert, and the army, for example, has already called up its reservists in order to prepare for the worst scenario. Without going any further, the Israeli Defense Minister, Yoav Galant, has assured that they attack “where they want”, and that when they hit they do so “very, very hard.”

In fact, Israel claims to already have its combat aircraft ready. A measure that is added to the suspension of vacations for all military personnel and the increase in army personnel that they define as “high level of preparation”which also includes a military reinforcement on all borders, more air defenses and alterations in location systems such as GPS.

The Israeli population has reacted and has begun to stockpile the essential goods to survive. An issue that supermarkets already perceive due to the increase in sales since many people have gone out to buy food, water and electric generators in view of what may happen in the next few hours.

But who would do it?

It is clear that Israel faces a very uncertain scenario, although experts believe that a direct attack from Iran is unlikely, although they do not rule out that Tehran’s allies do so. In fact, this Friday the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, assured that “there will be a response against Israel” that could come from Syria either Lebanon.

Ruth Ferrero, professor of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid, explained this Friday in Al Rojo Vivo that “they are probably Iran’s partners, the proxies in the region” those who execute a possible action. The journalist and writings Ignacio Cembrero have spoken along the same lines, differentiating that “it is one thing for Iran to be very angry and another for it to dare to directly attack Israel” and he argues that “it does not want to go to war with them and USA”.

It is precisely those militias allied to the Tehran regime that could take immediate actions against Israeli objectives such as the rebels in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen or the Hezbollah group in Lebanon and Syria. Even the leader of the Shiite militia considers that last Monday’s attack was “a turning point” to which he promises an answer. This is what Nasrallah assured hundreds of followers this Friday afternoon: “Be sure that the Iranian response will definitely go against Israel.”

It is these militias that everyone looks at, since Iran has to protect your nuclear weapons system, which is still in the development phase and which Israel is closely monitoring. Reason that Cembrero has maintained, since “entering war would mean that this nuclear project would be destroyed or postponed for many years.”

The director of ‘The Political Room’, Yago Rodríguez, explains that “Israel fears that if Iran one day gains nuclear weapons and since it is so small, a surprise nuclear attack can sweep the country in a very short time.” In summary, there are several warning signs for an escalation at the regional level.