Israel prevented Iran from deploying 'hundreds of missiles' in Lebanon, Syria

Israeli army chief Aviv Kohavi on Wednesday announced that Israel has prevented Iran from deploying hundreds of missiles in Lebanon and Syria, while announcing that Israel was behind a Nov. 8 attack on an Iranian convoy that had entered Syria from Iraq.

"As a result of many years of activity, the Iranian vision -- which was supposed to include at this time hundreds of surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles in the Syrian and Lebanese arenas – has been completely disrupted,” Kohavi said.

“It was supposed to include tens of thousands of militiamen -- at their peak there were indeed tens of thousands -- and a new Hezbollah organization in the south of the Golan Heights. These three things have been significantly disrupted… The level of deterrence against the Iranians has increased significantly,” Kohavi added.

And in a rare acknowledgment, Kohavi took responsibility for an Israeli air force attack against an Iranian “weapons convoy” on the Syria-Iraq border.

"Out of 25 trucks, truck number 8 was the truck with the weapons,” the Israeli commander added.