Housing Minister Yoav Gallant said, this morning, "The Shiite storm has reached Syria and Lebanon and flooded them. You have to wake up."

Interviewed by public radio, the retired general said, "No one wants the Iranians in Syria, not the Egyptians, not the Saudis, not the Jordanians or even the Turks. The Iranians are not free to do whatever they like in Syria. We will not allow them to establish themselves on Syrian soil and turn it into another front against the state of Israel."