Iran’s Strategies in Defeating Terrorism

The Saudis as the leader of the new anti-Iranian coalition of Sunni Arab states may also try to impede Iran’s expansion by wooing local players away from Iran and its proxies through financial and other incentives.
While Israel’s ‘pretends’ nonintervention in the six-year war raging in Syria, it has stepped up its military and political responses to Iran’s perceived effort at encirclement and it embraced the US-supported Sunni Arab coalition.
It has also poured hundreds of millions of dollars into fortifying border defenses with Lebanon and adopted more assertive military tactics. It has also warned Lebanon that should rockets against Israel be launched, all of the country’s infrastructure, and not just Hezbollah’s military installations in the south, would be targeted in retaliatory raids.
At the border between Israel and Gaza, Israel has invested hundreds of millions of dollars burying sensors and deploying underground barriers down to the subterranean water level to prevent Iranian-supported Hamas from building new tunnels into Israel. 
Ariel Levite, a former director general for policy of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission now with the Carnegie Endowment’s nuclear-policy program, said that Israel had launched strikes at its Golan Heights border that killed IRGC soldiers.
The Israel Defense Forces’ chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said that the more assertive posture is aimed at signaling to Iran and its proxies that the Jewish state will do “whatever is necessary,” to prevent “special” weapons, or sophisticated, highly accurate arms that can change the strategic balance between Israel and its neighbors, from reaching Hezbollah or Hamas. 
He added that it would also act assertively to prevent Iran and its proxies from encircling Israel with hostile forces—Hezbollah to its north in Lebanon, the IRGC and its allied Shia militias to its east in Syria, and Hamas from the south in Gaza.
While intensifying its military operations and diplomatic efforts to thwart potential strategic peril, Netanyahu has concentrated on enforcing his administration’s so-called red lines against spillover from the conflict in Syria. 
In the past year, Israel has stepped up bombing of arms depots and convoys in Syria that are believed to be transporting to Hezbollah “special” weapons. Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s unwillingness to accept intentional or accidental “drizzle” of fire or “spillover” from the Syrian war on any front, and will respond after every incident.
However, he resisted calls for even more aggressive military action as the one coming from some analysts at the Herzliya Conference. Most analysts argued that Israel was incapable of confronting Iran’s expanding writ alone, and must rely on stronger powers—the US and Russia—to counter Iranian aggression.
Brig. Gen. Herzog said: “Israel understands the strategic threat posed by Iran, but Israelis also know that it needs the US to counter Iran.”
But uncertain is America’s likely response under President Donald Trump as concerns about Iran had triggered a struggle within the Trump administration over whether American policy has been too narrowly focused on defeating Daesh.
Israel is also pressing Trump to distance his administration from Russia and to prevent Iran from establishing roads and other links that would enable the IRGC to move men, weapons, and material to Lebanon from Iran with less risk, greater speed, and ease. 
Although US planes have targeted Syrian army and even Iranian targets near At-Tanf, claiming “self-defense”, many Israeli officials and experts doubt that Israel can rely on Trump to contain Iran.
Many Israelis also do not trust Russia or Putin’s willingness to protect Israel from Iran. Because the Russians also rely on Iran and Iranian-sponsored militias for the protection of their own forces and bases in Syria, so it is unclear how, exactly, they would separate themselves from Iran and still retain control of the territory that they now dominate—even if that were, in fact, Russia’s goal.