Israeli NGO Head Ksenia Svetlova: Iran Still 'Firing Like Crazy'
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Israel has made an impressive start to military operations against Iran, but may be not much closer to its goals than a week ago, former Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova told RFE/RL in an interview at her home in Tel Aviv.
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Features Israeli NGO Head Ksenia Svetlova: Iran Still 'Firing Like Crazy' By Ray Furlong March 07, 2026 08:22 CET Israeli NGO Head Ksenia Svetlova: Iran Still 'Firing Like Crazy' Share Share Print TEL AVIV -- Israel has made an impressive start to military operations against Iran, but may be not much closer to its goals than a week ago, former Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova told RFE/RL in an interview at her home in Tel Aviv on March 6. Svetlova, who is now executive director of an NGO called ROPES (Regional Organization for Peace, Economics, and Security), said there were few examples of "regimes that fall just as a result of air strikes" and was skeptical of the idea that Iraqi Kurdish militia would want to get involved in the fight. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. RFE/RL: We are almost a week into the conflict. From an Israeli perspective, where are we? How do things stand after a week? Ksenia Svetlova: Well, you know, in a military sense, the IDF briefs us regularly that there are fantastic achievements and that there is less rocket potential, that a lot of the launching stations were destroyed. And, actually, we do see less fire, less volume of fire here in Israel. I am absolutely sure that they are achieving the goals that they put ahead of them, in the military sense. Whether that will bring us to the ultimate goal – [as far as] Israel is concerned, the ultimate goal is the downfall of the regime. There is nothing else there. No agreement will be good enough. No alternative Iranian regime will be good enough within the frame of the Islamic republic. So, are we closer now to this goal than the week before? I'm not sure of that at all. RFE/RL: So, what gives you pause then? What makes you hesitant about , I know a little bit about the history of trying to collapse regimes. And I think that there is some confusion here about the nature of the Iranian regime. I'm not sure if this confusion derives from the lack of expertise currently in the ...
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