Stefano Ritondale: on Iran Conflict: ‘U.S., Israel Showing the Strength of Our Militaries in Cooperation’

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RITONDALE: “Clearly from the European perspective they are taking an arm’s length away from this and the a lot of deployments are focused on the defense. From an offensive military capability it’s important to highlight the United States in Israel can deal with the Iranian problems and we have seen in depth integration between both military capabilities to really conduct strikes against Iran very successfully and as we highlighted ahead of schedule. One of the key aspects is a critical decision that happened during the first Trump Administration is important for its operation to be so successful was Israel was moved from U.S. European command to U.S. central command. On January of 2021. That decision gave five years for the U.S. central command to be able to plan operations with Israel bilaterally and extensively and during this operation when the order was given we’ve seen the U.S. Israel showing the strength of our militaries in the cooperation we have which generally we would see with the U.K. or Canada and”