Iran’s main foreign policy goal is to ‘wipe Israel off the map.’ We all know that, yet many pretend that the reality of the situation is more ‘nuanced’ than it really is. Well, perhaps this news will make them realize that the situation is not nuanced, by quite simple: ‘Iran has stepped up its efforts to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip by using floatable devices that it drops near the waters off the Gaza coast to be picked up by Palestinian fisherman, senior defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post.’

According to defense officials, Iran is now sending rockets and other advanced weaponry to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip by sea as well as via tunnels dug under the Philadelphi Corridor and connecting the Sinai peninsula with Rafah.

Officials said that the Navy is doing a fairly effective job in curbing the smuggling by sea, but that there are some shipments Israeli forces did not succeed in intercepting.

“They throw the weapons overboard in waterproof, sealed tubes which then float into the Gaza waters and are picked up by fishermen,” one official said. “Sometimes Navy boats intercept them and sometimes they get through.”

In recent months, the IDF has noticed an increase in Iranian-made weaponry in the Gaza Strip, including rockets and mortars. Terror groups in Gaza recently were equipped by Teheran with two different types of mortar shells made in Iran – one 120 mm with a range of 10 kilometers like a Kassam rocket and another with a range of six kilometers. Defense officials told the Post that in recent weeks thousands of mortars have been smuggled into Gaza.

Officials in Jerusalem said some of the weaponry now in Gaza was far too large to have been smuggled through tunnels burrowed from Sinai into Gaza, and that there was obviously an alternative route that was being used to smuggle weaponry into the area.

It’s as simple as this: this constitutes an act of war against the state of Israel. For some reason, the international community responds to actions like these however by either ignoring them or pretending that it is a minor criminal act. It’s not. It’s very significant, and it should be treated as such.

Nuclear energy / weapons isn’t the only problem with Iran. Another major problem is that Iran is actively supporting terrorist organizations. We all know that, yet the West seems to be willing to accept it (probably because those terrorist organizations do not attack us directly, only our allies in the region).