Thread by @jseldin

"#Iran is threatening the other countries as much as it is threatening the State of #Israel" Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz tells #AspenSecurity

"Iran is a global challenge. You can see it in #Venezeula. You can see it in South #Africa, in South America... #Nigeria"

#Israel-#Ukraine - "Israel is definitely on the Western side. Israel is definitely on the #Ukrainian side" per DefMin Gantz

"We are supporting it in all the diplomatic measures. We are supporting it w/all the humanitarian aid...We have opened a field hospital"

Why not more for #Ukraine? "We do have our operational considerations" per #Israel's Gantz

"We are sharing an aerial border w/the #Russia|ns above #Syria ... so we have other calculus that we have to take into mind"

#Russia "They are not threatening us directly" per #Israel's Gantz "But we have to make sure we have a dialogue connection w/them. We have to deconflict ourselves w/them"

"#Iran for the past 4 decades has been acting w/impunity" #Bahrain Undersecretary for Political Affairs Abdulla Al Khalifa tells #AspenSecurity

Asked about preemptive military action vs #Tehran, "dealing with it diplomatically would be a priority" he says

#Iran's ongoing development of its nuclear program "would affect obviously its neighbors in a very dramatic manner" per #Bahrain's Khalifa

Adds its "fair enough" to characterize Bahrain's potential participation in preemptive military action as an ambiguous maybe

"There's a limitation to what #Bahrain can do or to what anyone can do to support the #Palestinians if they do not support themselves" per Khalifa

"We would have to see a united national Palestinian front for them to know exactly what they want" he says