"Nurnews" website, which is close to the Iranian National Security Council, reported that Israel is seeking to implicate Turkey in its anti-Iran game, and that the media noise raised by Israel "aims to increase the price of any Iranian retaliation," as he described it.

This comes amid the escalating tone of mutual threats between Tehran and Tel Aviv, and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed that Israel, the United States and regional allies have developed an air defense alliance, and that he has succeeded in thwarting Iranian attempts to attack Israel.

The website added that the positions of Israeli officials since the assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodayi last month are aimed at achieving political, security and media goals.

He pointed out that Israel "is well aware that Iran will respond firmly to any hostile measures against it."

The website also quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh - in response to Israel's warning its citizens not to travel to Turkey for fear of Iran's retaliation - that "Israeli officials should worry in their beds and not worry anywhere else."

He said that Israeli officials are seeking to create a confrontation between Iran and Turkey "with these false allegations," while "Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian called his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in recent days to confirm the expansion of relations between the two countries, and the Turkish side welcomed that."

Training on a US Patriot missile battery at the UAE base Al Dhafra (Reuters)

air defense alliance

On the other hand, the chief spokesman for the Iranian armed forces, Brigadier General Abu al-Fadl Shakarji, stressed today, Monday, that the announcement of an air defense alliance that includes Israel, America and regional allies is due to "the desperation and impotence of the Zionist entity only," according to the Iranian Tasnim news agency.

Regarding the flight of American B-52 bombers and Israeli combat planes over the Gulf, Shakarji said, "This movement was a demonstration step," according to the Iranian agency.

He added that "America is well aware that in the event of a strategic mistake, it will face irreparable blows, more dangerous than ever."

And Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz had revealed that Israel, the United States and regional allies had developed an air defense alliance, and that he had succeeded in thwarting Iranian attempts to attack Israel and other countries in the Middle East, he said.

And the Bloomberg News Agency quoted Gantz as saying today, Monday, during a session of parliament, that the so-called “Middle East Air Defense” program, which was developed last year, is already working to protect Israel and its neighbors from attacks by missiles, cruise missiles and drones.

A scene from the funeral of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaye, who was assassinated in Tehran last month (Anatolia)

Israeli strikes

And the American newspaper "The Wall Street Journal" revealed today, Monday, that Israel has escalated its campaign of attacks by using small drones to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.

She added that the recent Israeli attacks on Iran are part of a new strategy called the "octopus doctrine".

She added that the strategy of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett aims to transfer the battle against Tehran to Iranian territory.

The newspaper pointed out that Israel has launched more than 400 raids against Iran and its allies in Syria since 2017.

Over the past years, Iranian nuclear facilities - including the Natanz facility - and others for military industrialization have been subjected to accidents that Tehran accused Tel Aviv of being behind, and accused it of assassinating a number of Iranian scientists in its nuclear and missile programs.