Iran attacked Israel from Syria without notifying Damascus – report

Times of Israel ^ | 10 May 2018, 10:40 pm | TOI staff

[kabar]

Between Syria’s involvement in the deaths of 200+ Marine peacekeepers in Lebanon,...the sponsorship of terrorists in Iraq that killed thousands of GI’s.

Iran was behind both of these actions.

[BeauBo]

When push came to shove, neither Russia nor Syria stood with Iran.

[Zhang Fei]

Iran was behind both of these actions.

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Acting through Syria. Lebanon was a Syrian satrapy.

[Zhang Fei]

“When push came to shove, neither Russia nor Syria stood with Iran.”

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These are allies, not friends.

[kabar]

Iran is the big player in Lebanon. Hezbollah receives military training, weapons, and financial support from Iran, and political support from Syria.

Iran Out to Remake Mideast With Arab Enforcer: Hezbollah

[bert]

The stage is now set for Saudi air force to fly cover for Israeli bombers that assault Bandar Shahpur (homeni) and destroy the refineries and crude shipping facilities.

Iran can not react in a meaningful way

[MeganC]

“Not the same thing at all. No one is launching armed drones or firing missiles at Iran from Syria’s territory.”

No one from Syria ever attacked the United States yet that hasn’t stopped the USA from waging a war against Syria to advance a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe.

Regardless of opinions on what each country is pursuing in Syria it is inarguable that they are each advancing their own interests.

None of them give a crap about Syria. It’s just a pawn.

[MeganC]

The US, Turkey, Russia, and Iran are all involved in Syria due to competing interests in a gas pipeline.

[Zhang Fei]

“No one from Syria ever attacked the United States yet that hasn’t stopped the USA from waging a war against Syria to advance a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe.”

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By your logic, no Afghan attacked the US on 9/11, so we must have been after something else when we invaded and occupied the country. In reality, Syria was involved in the deaths of 200+ Marine peacekeepers in Lebanon, the harboring and sponsorship of terrorist movements (DFLP, PFLP, PLO, et al) that killed dozens of Americans and the sponsorship of terrorists in Iraq that killed thousands of GI’s. We are justified in our intervention up to the point of the removal of the Assad clan from power.

[MeganC]

You might want to catch up on your reading:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/5410130

“The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War”

[Zhang Fei]

“You might want to catch up on your reading:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/5410130

“The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War””

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Why would you taking the assertions of a far left website whose founder is endorsed by Noam Chomsky at face value? The guy also claims that 9/11 was an American conspiracy aimed at getting a pretext to invade Iraq.

Given Russia’s very good record at funding sources to promote disinformation, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russian treasury were behind the Global Research website. Russian footwork is behind the belief among a good chunk of the black community that the CIA invented AIDS to kill black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky

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Chossudovsky is the son of a Russian Jewish émigré, the career United Nations diplomat and academic Evgeny Chossudovsky, and an Irish Protestant, Rachel Sullivan.[13] Raised in Switzerland, Chossudovsky moved to Canada and joined the University of Ottawa in 1968.[11][14] According to the Ottawa Citizen, Chossudovsky’s academic research kept him “on the margins of mainstream academia,” but won praise from anti-establishment intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky. In 2005, shortly after Chossudovsky began writing about terrorism, the Citizen reported that Chossudovsky’s was “a popular figure among anti-globalization activists,” and that some of his students referred to him as “Canada’s Chomsky.”[11] At that time, some colleagues were becoming uncomfortable with Chossudovsky’s ideas, with one professor describing them as having “a conspiratorial element.”[11]

In 2005, Chossudovsky published the book America’s “War on Terrorism”. According to the New York Times, the “conspiracy-minded book... argued that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were simply a pretext for American incursions into the Middle East, and that Bin Laden was nothing but a boogeyman created by the United States”.[9] The book was found in the bookshelf in Osama bin Laden’s compound Abbottabad, Pakistan.[9][15][10] According to Vox, the book’s theory is that “9/11 was a United States government conspiracy to start the Iraq War and enable a “new world order” to help corporate interests. Bin Laden was, at best, a pawn in CIA interests.”[10]

[Zhang Fei]

I'm gonna guess that the media's never-ending caterwauling about the the military-industrial complex is steering you towards far left websites like Global Research. Here's the reality of US military spending as a % of the economy - it's far lower than the low teens it was during Eisenhower years, at the end of which he gave that speech:

[Zhang Fei]

Leftists used to have a consistent ideology. Today, their ideology is any enemy of America is a friend of mine. That’s why you have a left-wing website like Global Research, that would normally be against all organized religion, defending Iran’s theocratic regime.

[MeganC]

Fine, you hate that source.

Here’s another:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar%E2%80%93Turkey_pipeline

Here’s a right-wing site with the same information:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/oil-gas-war-over-syria-4-maps

And I can go on. In any case the pipeline issue is the crux of why so many players are going into the power vacuum in Syria that the USA absolutely created by arming the rebels who became ISIS and using them as a proxy to overthrow Assad.

[nuconvert]

The Syria/Iran relationship goes back decades...way before the pipeline.
Syria & Lebanon are the gateways to Israel for Hezbollah and IRGC

[MeganC]

I agree that Syria is a gateway for Hezbollah and Iran.

But until McCain and Obama started the civil war in Syria that gateway was kept closed by the Assad regime.

[nuconvert]

No it wasn’t. Assad has been a puppet for a long time.

[MeganC]

Okay, I get it that you two believe that the USA is waging war against Syria for purely altruistic reasons.

Perhaps you two can explain to me what American national interest was being responsibly and admirably pursued by the Obama Administration when this was was started?

Maybe you can also tell me what Syria did to the USA in 2011 that warranted US forces to intervene in that country? What act of war did the Assad regime conduct against the USA?

Or were we just there to promote freedom and liberty and to establish stable democratic republics like we have in Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya?

[Zhang Fei]

“Here’s a right-wing site with the same information:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/oil-gas-war-over-syria-4-maps";

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ZeroHedge is not a right wing site - it was founded by a Bulgarian and is registered in Bulgaria*. Its contents are hard to distinguish from what Pravda and Izveztia used to peddle during the Cold War - America is on the verge of collapse. Besides, if someone that Noam Chomsky praises says it’s a lovely day outside, you should probably look out the window, just to be sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge

* Just what was Bulgaria famous for? An umbrella murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov

[MeganC]

“ZeroHedge is not a right wing site”

Funny, the link you gave me to back up that assertion says it’s a right wing ‘alt right’ site.