In an interview, Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett asserted that “I have placed a goal that within twelve months Iran will leave Syria... Iran has nothing to look for in Syria. They aren't neighbours, they have no reason to settle next to Israel and we will remove Iran from Syria in the near future”. Bennett also indicated that “if in the past the majority of the targets were against lone convoys that entered Syria from Iran via Iraq and then to the Golan Heights or Lebanon, the targets are now completely different”.