Posted on 07/15/2018 9:27:56 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
Israel is ramping up attacks against Iranian supply lines in Syria to block the flow of weapons to Hezbollah and other Tehran-backed militias, as it seeks to drive its foe away from its borders.
In June Israel targeted a far-flung compound near the Syria-Iraq border, according to a security official, after carrying out multiple strikes closer to home against suspected Iranian military assets in Syria, where Iran is a key backer of President Bashar al-Assad.
Israel, in accordance with its usual practice, didn’t confirm or deny it carried out the June airstrike. The U.S. denied responsibility, and a U.S. official confirmed that Israel was behind it.
The strike—carried out in the dead of night on June 17—targeted a villa in the town of al-Hari south of Abu Kamal, the security official told The Wall Street Journal. Iraqi Shiite militia were working there with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to traffic Iranian weapons into Syria, the official said.
The strike killed more than 20 fighters from Kata’ib Hezbollah, an Iraqi Shiite militia believed to transport weapons for Iran through Iraq into Syria, according to security analysts.
The aim of Israel’s attack hundreds of miles from its borders was to signal that it won’t tolerate Iranian attempts to establish a so-called land bridge running from Iran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon, the official said. Israel has said it is specifically concerned with the spread of long-range missiles and antiaircraft defense systems.
Iran’s military and militias it backs have established bases across Iraq and Syria to help fight Islamic State and groups opposing Mr. Assad, and its ally Hezbollah is well entrenched in Lebanon. Israel fears Tehran’s increasing territorial control will allow the Islamic Republic to transfer military hardware and personnel by road from Iran all the way to Israel’s doorstep.
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Israel has no illusions regarding Iran. It views Iran as an existential threat. Especially disturbing is the fact that Iran has places in Syria to position stealthy state of the art Chines made mobile land to land missiles. They also don’t trust a desperate medieval mullah led Iran with nuclear weapons. Recently Mossad stole Iranian nuclear plans and stunned the world. However Mossad does more than steal documents. There is little doubt that each critical Iranian nuclear facility has been fitted with a self destruct remotely detonated mechanism. Before the mullahs and their goons forced the Iranian Jews to leave, Iranian Jews were very involved with all aspects of the Iranian construction business. Little doubt that Mossad made good use of their expertise. Those nuclear facilities are well stocked with C4 plastique imbedded in the construction. When the time is appropriate, the Iranian nuclear program will be destroyed without an Israeli or American jet violating Iranian air space.
Israel takes the Iranian threat seriously. Netanyahu will not leave office until this existential threat to the Jewish people is eliminated.
its interesting how the media never even mentions how Obama basically gave away Iraq AND Syria and for all practical purposes Lebanon (Hezballah infestation galore)... to his Mullah bff’s (Iran)... AS WELL as enabling them to build a nuclear ICBM missile strike arsenal (note: ICBM’s are NOT needed for Iran to hit Arabia or Israel... the ICBM’s are to destroy Iran’s number ONE target...USA, their socalled “Great Satan”)
oh yeah, Obama also shipped them at least $150 BILLION in CASH (so it couldn’t be traced or stopped by the legitimate banking system), plus he threatened on at least two occasions that he would use the USA military to destroy any country attempting to stop the Iranian nuclear bomb project, etc. And, he sabotaged at least a couple such attempts by concerned nearly nations
when the entire Obama/SorozNazi/HilLIARy scandal is finally found out...oh yes, turning Libya over to their IslamoNazi terrorist pals too...and doing same for Egypt, which has somehow managed to recover itself but still... (Trump releasing the remaining info is exactly what they’re so very very very afraid of...)
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
In June Israel targeted a far-flung compound near the Syria-Iraq border... carried out in the dead of night on June 17 -- targeted a villa in the town of al-Hari south of Abu Kamal... Iraqi Shiite militia were working there with Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to traffic Iranian weapons into Syria... The strike killed more than 20 fighters from Kata’ib Hezbollah, an Iraqi Shiite militia believed to transport weapons for Iran through Iraq into Syria, according to security analysts.
Besides being a nice way to say 'hello', it would surprise me if the Israelis weren't also targeting specific individuals. Thanks UnwashedPeasant.
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