A former head of Israel’s military intelligence has owned up to the fact that Iran is “pragmatic” and exerts ample “patience” to follow through its plans in the West Asia region, one of which he says is the elimination of Israel.

Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash, the former head of Israeli military intelligence directorate (Aman), said in an interview with Israeli media that the regime does not have a “strategic policy” to deal with Iran and deter the Islamic Republic’s plans in the future, including its nuclear program.

On the other side, as Ze’evi-Farkash said, Iran has a clear “prospect” and believes, “Israel must be wiped off” the face of the region.

The Islamic Republic “knows that it is not a matter of one or two days, or one year or two, which makes a tremendous difference as opposed to some who believe in Israel from the river to the sea,” the former Israeli official underlined, in a geographical reference to the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

“Iran believes in a West Asia region where Shia Muslims are dominant and Israel has vanished,” Ze’evi-Farkash said. “Iran knows that this issue requires what is called patience. Ample patience and perseverance is what Iranians have more than us.”

Ze’evi-Farkash also acknowledged the Iranians’ pragmatism and visionary attitude in planning for the future.

“I reckon that they are pragmatic, they plan for the long time and know when to pursue their interests,” the former head of Israel’s military intelligence said. “They say if it does not happen in my tenure, it will happen in another.”

Ze’evi-Farkash stressed, “I have no doubt that they (Iranians) act practically. They train, educate and work so that such things will happen and Israel is gradually enfeebled.”

The Israeli regime has been the root cause of crises across the West Asia region since its brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories more than seven decades ago.

Backed by the West, Israel has been attempting to consolidate its illegal existence by doing Washington’s bidding and perpetrating numerous acts of terror against the regional countries, which even as the regime’s analysts and experts maintain has been of no avail and has further pushed the occupying entity closer to its inevitable collapse.

Despite being beset by various internal crises, including in the political and economic fields, the illegal entity has sunk much deeper into an irredeemable quagmire since early October, when the regime launched a genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Israel has achieved no objectives in Gaza, killing more than 25,000 people notwithstanding.