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2021-04-14 22:01
On April 13, local time, a merchant ship owned by an Israeli company was attacked by a missile near the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. According to Israeli media, the merchant vessel was slightly damaged and there were no casualties.
Israeli officials said the attack was initiated by Iran, though iran has yet to respond.
At present, the merchant ship remains stranded in the Arabian Sea and the Israeli Navy is on high alert. It was also the second time in a month that an Israeli ship had been hit by a missile attack.
Recently, relations between Iran and Israel have continued to be tense.
On April 6, local time, an Iranian military cargo ship was attacked by a suspected Israeli missile in the Red Sea. Subsequently, on April 11, Iran's underground nuclear facility was also attacked, and the uranium enrichment centrifuge was damaged. The Iranian government has identified Israel as the initiator of the sabotage and warned of retaliation.
According to Fan Hongda, a professor at the Institute of Middle East Studies at the University of Foreign Chinese in Shanghai, the main reason why Israel chose to intensify confrontation with Iran at this point in time is to prevent the United States from returning to the Iran nuclear agreement, and Israel regards the return of the United States to the nuclear agreement as a serious threat to its own interests, so whenever the United States eases its policy toward Iran, Israel will come out to stir up trouble.
However, Israel's expectations may be disappointed.
Iranian government spokesman Rabij confirmed on the 13th that the country's chief nuclear negotiator Araghchi has led a delegation to Vienna on the same day, and the talks between the parties involved in the Iranian nuclear agreement will be held on the 15th.
White House spokesman Psaki also skimmed off the U.S. and Iran's nuclear facility attack accident at a press conference on the 12th, and said that the United States will focus on the upcoming Vienna negotiations.
Fan Hongda said that whether it is Iran or the United States, or the international community is actively promoting the détente of US-Iran relations, they are all trying to bring the Iranian nuclear agreement back on track. Israel, on the other hand, should seriously consider and restrain its own behavior, and should not blindly pursue the "absolute security" of the country under the protection and connivance of the United States. History has repeatedly proved that once a country pursues so-called "absolute security", it often brings more insecurity to itself.
(Look at the news Knows editor Bi Junjie)