Tehran is keeping new missile supplies coming to Syria, undeterred by the Israeli air strikes which destroy incoming consignments, including the large-scale IDF bombing raids early Thursday, May 10 in the Damascus region. Most of the missiles are shipped in to Syrian airfields by Iranian and Syrian cargo planes.
DEBKAfile’s military sources therefore advise caution in assessing the comment by IDF officers that it will take Iran a long time to recover from Thursday’s raids on their units, missile stores and command centers in Syria. The IDF also reported that Russian commanders in Syria were advised of the coming IDF counter-attack against Iran’s military centers in general terms. Our sources confirm that Iran’s government and military leaders are determined to absorb Israel’s offensive – and keep going. Therefore, the IDF still has a long haul ahead, running possibly into months, before Israel can be sure that Iran has been stopped in its effort to establish a base in Syria as a platform for aggression. Tehran’s determination to go through with its plan is matched by Israel’s resolve to thwart it. As of now, neither side is willing to break off the confrontation.
Our military sources have learned that the air strike on Al Kiswa, south of Damascus, Tuesday night, directly after President Trump announced US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, hit an Iranian command center for southern Syria headed by Maj. Gen. Hossein Hamadani. It destroyed a consignment of Fateh 313 missiles. The delivery of this missile means that Iran is upgrading the weaponry being shipped to Syria. Fateh 313 is a short-range ballistic surface missile, whose development by Iran’s armaments industry, extended the range of the Fateh 110 to 500km and far improved its accuracy. It is also easier to install at speed. In the Al Kiswa attack, 8 Revolutionary Guards officers and men as well as Hizballah members were killed. Among them, according to some sources, was Iranian Brig. Gen. Abdul Rasoul. This has not been confirmed. There is no word on the casualties inflicted by Israel’s massive air strikes early Thursday.
An image grab from a video released on May 10, 2018 by the “Central War Media” and broadcast on Syria’s official TV purportedly shows Syrian air defense systems intercepting Israeli missiles over Syrian airspace. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / HO / CENTRAL WAR MEDIA)
The United Kingdom, Germany and France defended Israel’s right to launch self-defensive strikes against Iranian targets in Syria, after its warplanes struck 50 Iranian targets in Syria early in Thursday morning.
It was one of the heaviest Israeli barrages against Syria since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011.
The three countries issued an unusually strong defense of the Jewish state. The Trump Administration which always stands strong on Israel’s right to self-defense issued a statement as well.
The French Foreign Ministry said its country had an “unwavering commitment to Israel’s security” and that it “condemns any attempt to undermine it.”
It called on both Israel and Iran to exercise restrain. But at the same time the French Foreign Ministry also demanded that “Iran refrain from any military provocation” and “warned it against any temptation toward regional hegemony.”
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman told reporters in London, “We condemn Iran’s attack on Israel. Israel has every right to defend itself.
“We call on Iran to refrain from any further attacks and for calm on all sides. We call on Russia to use its influence in Syria to prevent further Iranian attacks,” May’s spokesman said.
The German Foreign Ministry said: “We are deeply concerned by reports about last night’s Iranian rocket attacks on Israeli army outposts.
“These attacks are a severe provocation that we most strongly condemn. We have always emphasized that Israel has a the right to defend itself.
“At the same time, it is a key that the situation not escalate any further. This particularly means we must do everything we can to finally arrive a sustainable poetical solution to the conflict in Syria — it is needed to end the suffering of the Syrian population and to not further threaten stability in the region.”
The White House followed her interview with a more formal statement.
“The Iranian regime’s deployment into Syria of offensive rocket and missile systems aimed at Israel is an unacceptable and highly dangerous development for the entire Middle East,” the White House said.
“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bears full responsibility for the consequences of its reckless actions,” the White House said as it demanded that the IRGC and Hizbollah refrain from any further provocations.
The White House also called on “all nations” to “make clear” that Iran’s “actions pose a severe threat to international peace and stability.”
Israel launched its air-strike after Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp’s Quds Force fired 20 rockets towards Israel’s front defensive line in the Golan Heights.
The Syrian Army Command said Israel’s attack killed three people and injured two others. A Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the strikes killed at least 23 military personnel, including Syrians and non-Syrians.
The strong exchange of fire stoked international fears of a war between Israel and Iran in Syria.
Israel’s diplomatic and security cabinet is set to meet later Thursday to discuss the strike and counter-strike.
The Syrian foreign ministry said the Israeli attack indicated “the start of a new phase of aggression” against Damascus.
The escalation in tensions comes as the US announced that it had left the 2015 agreement with Iran and the five other world powers that had been designed to curb Iran’s nuclear ambition.
The US warned that the deal had instead funneled billions of dollars into Tehran to fuel its regional military ambitions including an increased military presence in Syria.
The other signatories to the deal — France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia and China still hope to salvage the deal.
In the backdrop of those efforts, the German, French and British statements in defense of Israel is particularly striking.
The Iranian-Israeli attacks also came after Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu had visited Moscow and spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country is also active in Syria and back Iran militarily.
Israeli reportedly informed Russia of its intention to strike Iranian targets in Syria.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told TASS on Thursday: “All of this is very alarming and raising concerns. It is necessary to deescalate tensions. We are verifying all the details now.”
Russia’s defense ministry said Syria had shot down more than half of the missiles fired by Israel, RIA news agency reported.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said in Herzliya on Thursday that the IDF had hit almost all of Iran’s infrastructure in Syria.
The targets all belonged to IRGC’s Quds Force and included intelligence sites, logistics headquarters, a military compound and logistics complex in Kiswah near the Syrian capital of Damascus, weapons storage sites belonging at Damascus International Airport, intelligence systems and installations, as well as observation, military posts and military hardware in the buffer zone.
In addition, the Iranian launcher from which the Grad rockets and Fajr 5 missiles were fired at Israel was also destroyed overnight.
A senior Hamas official on Thursday urged “hundreds of thousands” of Arab rioters in Gaza to breach the border fence from Gaza into Israel at protests to coincide with next week’s US embassy move to Jerusalem.
In his first major briefing to international media since becoming Gaza head of the Islamist group in 2017, Yahya Sinwar implied he would like to see hundreds of thousands of Gazans infiltrating into Israel as part of more than a month of violent protests.
Asked what he wanted to see from riots on Monday and Tuesday, Sinwar said out Israel has never specifically defined its borders.
“What’s the problem with hundreds of thousands breaking through a fence that is not a border?”
Sinwar said he hoped Israel would not shoot at what he called “peaceful” protests.
Fifty-two rioters and terrorists have been killed by Israeli fire since the six weeks of violent clashes dubbed the “March of Return” began on March 30 along the Israel-Gaza frontier.
Israel says it only opens fire when necessary to stop infiltrations, attacks and damage to the border fence, while accusing Hamas of seeking to use the riots as cover to carry out violence.
Thousands of rioters are expected to gather along the border on Monday, which coincides with the controversial opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
There are fears protesters could attempt to breach the fence en masse, in an attempt to flood into Israeli territory.
An F-16 fighter jet takes off from Ramat David air force base.
Photo Credit: Ofer Zidon / Flash 90
The United States in a statement issued Thursday condemned the “provocative rocket attacks” launched early Thursday by Iran against Israel from Syria, unequivocally supporting Israel’s right to defend herself.
“The Iranian regime’s deployment into Syria of offensive rocket and missile systems aimed at Israel is an unacceptable and highly dangerous development for the entire Middle East,” read a statement issued by the White House.
But in an unprecedented move by a Gulf nation, Israel also won regional support in the fight against Iran’s missile attacks as well: Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa tweeted in Arabic, “As long as Iran changes the current situation in the area and exploits other countries by using its power and missiles, then every country in this region – including Israel – has a right to defend itself by destroying the source of danger.”
Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman told the annual IDC Herzliya Conference on Thursday that Israeli fighter pilots “hit almost all Iranian infrastructures in Syria… They must understand: If it rains on us, it will pour on them.”
Four of the 30 Iranian missiles fired towards Israel were intercepted by Iron Dome anti-missile defense system interceptors; the others fell short within Syrian territory.
“I hope we finished this chapter,” Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says hours after Israel bombs Iranian targets in Syria in response to Iranian rocket barrage • White House: Israel “absolutely has a sovereign right to defend itself and we support it.”
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Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the Herzliya Conference, Thursday
|Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday that the Israeli military has bombed “nearly all” of the Iranian infrastructure sites in Syria in an overnight operation.
Iranian militias in Syria fired 20 rockets at Israeli military posts in the Golan Heights shortly after midnight between Wednesday and Thursday. In response, the Israeli Air Force bombed some 50 Iranian targets in Syria – the most intensive military confrontation between Israel and Iran to date and Israel’s biggest strike in Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said none of the rockets hit Israel. According to Army Radio, 16 projectiles fell on the Syrian side of the border and the other four were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system.
On Thursday, hours after the strikes, Lieberman told an annual security gathering that “if it rains on Israel, it will pour in Iran.”
The blistering Israeli assault was by far the most involved Israeli action in neighboring Syria since the civil war broke out there in 2011. Israel has tried to stay on the sidelines but has acknowledged over 100 airstrikes over the past seven years.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered Israel the administration’s support, saying, “This just further shows that the Iranian regime cannot be trusted. Israel absolutely has a sovereign right to defend itself and we support them in whatever efforts they have in order to defend themselves.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said Israel has the right to defend itself against Iranian aggression.
Netanyahu, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Wednesday, said he presented Putin with Israel’s “obligation and right to defend itself against Iranian aggression, be it from Iran or from Syrian territory.
“The Iranians declare their intentions to attack us,” Netanyahu said. “They are trying to transfer forces and deadly weapons there with the explicit goal of attacking Israel as part of their strategy to destroy the State of Israel.”
Reuters
Missile fire is seen from Damascus, overnight Wednesday
At the conference Thursday, Lieberman said he hoped the latest round of violence with Iran on the Syrian frontier was over.
“I hope we finished this chapter and that everyone got the message,” he said. “Unlike the Iranians, we are not trying to expand or establish a new border. Iran is constantly trying to spread and create new fronts, not only against us but also in Yemen, Africa, Lebanon and Iraq. Iran is the only country that represents this radicalism with a willingness to sacrifice its citizens and its future for the sake of extreme theology.”
Iran, he continued, “has invested billions in its subversive activity in Syria – namely the funding it gives Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis in Yemen – and this adventure comes at the expense of the citizens who suffer in Iran. We see the young generation asking, ‘Why is the reality here so difficult while the regime spends money in Yemen?'”
“Iran is trying to establish a shared border with us, but we will not allow Syria to be turned into an Iranian vanguard against Israel. This is our clear policy and we are working to implement it,” Lieberman said.
The defense minister stressed that “the Iranians tried to attack Israel but no missile reached our territory. They [the rockets] either fell in Syria or were intercepted by Iron Dome. No person, home or infrastructure were harmed.”
Commenting on a fiery speech by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemning U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal, the defense minister said the Iranian response to the American move proved Trump was right.
Khamenei’s speech “against President Trump was very harsh. We saw how they were burning American flags in the Iranian parliament. They are going in a very clear direction and that direction is escalation and conflict, friction and defiance.”
“Trump made the right decision,” Lieberman asserted. “When you look back at why the Soviet Union collapsed, the main reason was economic. The Iranians too – what you see there is unrest, especially among the younger generation, which is very advanced. This [the U.S.’s] decision poses a dilemma for the regime – survival or continued adventures in the Middle East. This is a very strong message,” he said.
“I hope that we will eventually see changes in the Middle East and relations between Iran and the countries of the world,” he continued. “We have no conflict with the Iranian people. We are not trying to bring anti-aircraft systems to the Iranian border. It is time for us to cooperate on science, energy and in other areas, and occupy ourselves with developing the technology of the future instead of investing efforts and energy in unnecessary conflicts in the 21st century.”
According to Lieberman, “I’m not sure that everyone in Iran agrees with the crazy policy in Syria, and I think some of the Iranian establishment also opposes it. We try to ensure Israel’s security. We do not interfere in the Syrian civil war, or with any of our other neighbors, and we hope that one day, they will stop talking about destroying Israel.
“We have to be very careful and focused. We have no interest in an escalation but we have to be ready for every scenario. This is a stubborn enemy that has been trying to hurt us for decades – in South America, Africa and the Middle East.”
Turning his attention back to the attempted Iranian strike overnight, Lieberman said, “For the first time, Iran – not its proxies – attacked Israel and tried to undermine our sovereignty. That won’t happen. This is a new phase and we have to be careful and not get carried away. I hope that for now, we have concluded the new chapter in our stand against Iranian extremism. We are not interested in an escalation but we will not let anyone harm us or build infrastructure that could be used to attack us in the future.
“This is a new reality. Iran’s attempt to deploy anti-aircraft systems near our border and close our skies is unacceptable. We will not allow Iranian anti-aircraft [systems] on our border that would close our skies to Herzliya or Tel Aviv,” he said.
“Hezbollah has completed a move to take over Lebanon, meaning that a Lebanese army sniper has become a Hezbollah sniper. There, too – we’re not looking to build settlements in Lebanon. All we want is for the border to be calm,” he said.
Israel, he warned, “has to be wary of complacency and distractions. This [the overnight operation] was not a sweeping victory. Everything there is limited and everyone wants to keep this confrontation contained in that box.”
Concluding his address, Lieberman noted that “We can’t act only with force. We also need to employ diplomatic means. The fact that Israel has the power to work with two superpowers – Russia and the United States – is not a small achievement, especially when we don’t agree with Russia on Syria.”
“Even tonight we discussed military issues with Russia and the U.S. People take that for granted but it’s not. Countries that are more important than Israel [in the international arena] don’t have the ability to maintain top-level communications with these superpowers. This is an important part of our defense doctrine,” Lieberman explained.
“I again caution against complacency. Don’t take anything for granted. You can’t achieve everything with military moves – they have to be complemented by diplomacy,” he said.
New American secretary of state threatened Tehran in run-up to Trump withdrawal from nuke deal, senior Israeli sources quoted as saying; Prime Minister’s Office declines to comment
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) is seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently warned Iran that if it harms Israel, the American military will respond, the Walla news site reported Thursday, quoting senior Israeli sources.
The sources reportedly said that in the run-up to President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tuesday that the US would withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, “the US moved to the stage of graduated threats against Iran” in a bid to prevent any flareups in the region.
The (Hebrew) report did not specify how Pompeo conveyed the reported warning.
The Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment on the report.
The Trump administration on Thursday condemned Iran’s firing some 20 rockets into Israel from Syria hours earlier, a move the White House warned could have far-reaching consequences for the entire region.
Almost immediately after the attack, Israel retaliated with a sustained bombing campaign, with Israeli jets targeting numerous Iranian-controlled sites across Syria, in the largest ever direct clash between Jerusalem and Tehran.
Pompeo visited Israel last week, soon after taking office, and held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Pompeo warned then of Iran’s “destabilizing and malign activities” in the Middle East. “We remain deeply concerned about Iran’s dangerous escalation of threats to Israel and the region and Iran’s ambition to dominate the Middle East remains,” he said.
“The United States is with Israel in this fight,” Pompeo added.
Netanyahu thanked Pompeo for his and Trump’s opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons and their commitment to countering Iran’s regional “aggression.”
“That aggression has grown many folds since the signing of the Iran nuclear deal. If people thought that Iran’s aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the deal, the opposite has happened,” the prime minister said.
“Iran is trying to gobble up one country after another. Iran must be stopped,” Netanyahu added, calling Iran’s “marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons” the greatest threat to the world.
Before their meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Pompeo called Israel “an incredibly important partner” and said it has a “special place in my heart.”
The US secretary’s visit to Israel preceded Netanyahu’s presentation of Iran’s nuclear weapons archive, which Israel spirited out of Tehran.
The cache, Netanyahu said, contained “incriminating documents, incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos and more.
“We’ve shared this material with the United States, and the United States can vouch for its authenticity,” he said of the information.
Syria’s foreign ministry said Thursday that a salvo of Israeli strikes on its territory marked a “new phase” of direct involvement in the country’s seven-year conflict.
In a statement carried by state news agency SANA, it said Israel’s “direct confrontation… signals the start of a new phase of the war on Syria”.
Israel’s army said it hit dozens of Iranian military targets in Syria overnight.
Israel’s “aggressive behavior… will not lead to anything but an increase in tension in the region”, the ministry said.
It was “a serious threat to international peace and security”, the ministry said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the strikes near Damascus, as well as in the center and southwest of the country, killed 23 regime fighters.
The Syrian army said just three people had been killed.
The raids overnight were the latest in a series of alleged Israeli strikes inside Syria.
On April 29, missile strikes — “probably Israeli” — on regime military positions killed at least 26 mostly Iranian fighters, according to the Observatory.
On April 9, missiles targeted the T-4 air base in the central province of Homs, killing up to 14 fighters, including seven Iranians, two days after an alleged chemical attack carried out by the Syrian regime.
Damascus accused Israel of carrying out the strike.
Since the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011, Israel has repeatedly targeted positions of the Syrian army and Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah backing it inside the country.
{To this day, the Iranians are still playing the ‘proxy card’ by insisting the Syrians are the ones who attacked Israel with missiles. However, if Salami follows through on threats to attack Tel Aviv, Tehran will be fair game. So much for proxies. – LS}
Hours after Israeli strikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, which reportedly killed 23 people, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Force, said that “resistance is the only way to confront” Iran’s enemies, “not diplomacy.”
“Wherever Iran has confronted its enemies, it has advanced; we have gained our power through difficult battles,” Salami said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
While Salami’s immediate subject was the reports of European efforts to salvage the Iran nuclear deal following US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 agreement on Tuesday, his words also seemed to refer obliquely to the Israeli operation, which struck 50 Iranian targets in Syria after 20 rockets were fired toward Israeli military positions in the Golan Heights, according to the IDF. 28 Israeli fighter jets participated in the attack and Israel also fired more than 10 tactical ground-to-ground missiles, a Russian Defense Ministry statement quoted by Interfax news agency said.
European countries are powerless to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, Salami said.
Iranian media is portraying the confrontation as an unprecedented Syrian attack on Israel.
“Tens of Israeli military centers… came under attack,” reported the English website of the semi-official Fars News Agency, quoting Syrian media. “The Israeli Iron Dome defense shield has failed to intercept the rockets.”
Other Iranian media sources, including Mashregh News, Iranian Student News Agency, and others, have presented the events in similar terms.
Responding on Twitter to a CNN report on the Israeli strikes, Syrian Member of Parliament Fares Shehabi denied that Iranians had launched the rockets against Israel.
Fares Shehabi MP@ShehabiFares
The Syrian army (not Iranians) launched 50 rockets (not 20) to several Israeli army targets in the Golan, and most rockets hit their targets.
Extensive IDF attack against Iranian targets overnight Thursday
Retaliating against the Iranian attack on Israel from Syrian territory, the IDF carried out one of its biggest air operations in the last few decades, attacking dozens of military targets belonging to the Iranian Al Quds Force in Syria overnight Thursday, the IDF Spokesperson reported.
As part of the large-scale attack, the IDF attacked:
Iranian intelligence sites operated by the Al Qods Force;
logistics commands of the Al Qods Force;
a military compound and logistics complex of the Al Qods Force in Kiswah;
an Iranian military camp north of Damascus;
weapons storage sites belonging to the Al Qods Force at Damascus International Airport;
intelligence systems and installations associated with theAl Qods Force;
and an observation post, military posts and weapons in the buffer zone in the Syrian Golan heights.
In addition, the Iranian launcher from which Iranian missiles were fired at Israel was destroyed overnight.
Israel’s Iron Dome system intercepted and shot down four of those 30 missiles, the rest landed in Syrian territory.
The Israeli Air Force attacked Syrian air defense batteries, which fired despite an Israeli warning. In retaliation, the IDF attacked a number of interception systems (SA5, SA2, SA22, SA17) belonging to the Syrian army.
All of Israel’s planes returned to base safely.
The IDF made it a point to say that the attack last night was done by Iranian Al Quds forces, and not by proxies.
Overnight, IDF fighter jets struck dozens of military targets belonging to the Iranian Quds forces in Syrian territory pic.twitter.com/LwBJTMkxYR
The overnight attacks were carried out following the rocket fire launched by the Iranian Qods Force towards the IDF’s front line in the Golan Heights. There were no casualties on Israel’s side from the Iranian attack, no damage was caused, and no hits were identified in Israeli territory.
The strikes tonight were in response to the rockets that the Iranian Quds forces launched towards IDF forward posts in the Golan Heights. No injuries or damage were reported in the Iranian attack, & no hits were located in Israel
The Iranian attack on Israel tonight was yet another clear proof of the intention behind the Iranian forces’ entrenchment in Syria and the danger they pose to Israel and regional stability, the IDF Spokesperson stated, noting that the Israeli home front maintains its civilian routine, that the schools and agricultural work will function as usual on Thursday, and public gatherings of up to 1,000 persons in an open area are permitted in the Golan Heights and Katzrin only.
“The IDF will continue to act decisively against the Iranian military efforts in Syria, views the Syrian regime as being responsible for whatever is happening in its territory, and warns it against acting against Israeli forces,” the report concluded, noting that “the IDF is highly prepared for a variety of scenarios and will continue to act as necessary for the safety of Israeli citizens.”
The IDF pointed out that not a single Iranian rocket managed to hit Israel. Last night Syrian TV falsely claimed that the Iranian missiles hit a dozen IDF bases, and listed the sites they claimed to have hit.
In a response to Hezbollah’s threats that they would hit harder and deeper into Israel if Israel responds to the first strike, first of all, Israel hit back harder and deeper against Iranian forces in Syria, and then sent out a message that if there any more attacks from Syria, the IDF will hit back even harder.
Contrary to the rumors, Russian forces did not get involved in any way in defending Syria or Iran.
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I came across Joseph’s blog many years ago, as I was very interested in following the developments regarding a potential attack on Iran by Israel, and how all those careless Iranian scientists kept on having “accidents” and getting themselves blown up… I have followed his blog ever since, and while I haven’t been a frequent contributor to comments, I have been a close follower of the material posted.
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