Israel accuses Iran of smuggling weapons into Jordan as region braces for possible retaliatory strike

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Israel on Monday accused Tehran and its Palestinian terrorist proxy Hamas of smuggling weapons into Jordan and the West Bank to destabilize those areas as the world braces for a possible retaliatory strike from Iran.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Monday that a "serious and dangerous situation is unfolding in Iran."

Katz alleged that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Units are collaborating with Hamas operatives in Lebanon to smuggle weapons and funds into Jordan "with the aim of destabilizing the regime."

From there, Katz said, the weapons are smuggled into the West Bank, flooding areas like Judea and Samaria where there are refugee camps, "with dangerous weapons and large sums of money – aiming to create a pro-Iranian Islamic terror front."

Katz said Iran’s effective control of these refugee camps in the West Bank leaves the Palestinian Authority "powerless to act."

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"We must take terror hubs like the Jenin refugee camp and carry out a thorough operational campaign to dismantle the terror infrastructure in the camp," Katz said, calling such a plan "a shared interest of Israel, many regional states, and the entire free world – to halt the spread of Iran’s axis of evil."

Katz’s statement comes as Israel is bracing for a possible retaliatory strike from