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Post by Daniel on May 10, 2018 17:00:22 GMT -5
'Iran crossed a red line - we responded accordingly'
David Rosenberg, 10/05/18
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces attacked Iranian and Assad regime targets inside of Syria Wednesday night in response to a serious escalation by Iranian forces, confirming that the IDF was indeed responsible for a series of airstrikes in Syria.
“Iran crossed a red line,” Netanyahu said in a video message Thursday evening.
“We responded accordingly. The IDF carried out a very extensive operation against Iranian targets in Syria.”
“Thanks to our military preparations for both defense and offense, the Iranian attack failed,” said Netanyahu referencing a series of rocket attacks by Iranian forces operating out of Syrian territory.
Twenty rockets were fired at northern Israel Wednesday night, but none of the projectiles hit targets in Israeli territory. Four rockets were shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, while the remainder landed inside of Syria.
“Not a single rocket hit Israeli territory,” continued Netanyahu. “The people of Israel are proud of the IDF, and the people of Israel rely on the IDF.”
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Post by Daniel on May 10, 2018 17:03:04 GMT -5
Report: Iran did not inform Syria ahead of attack on Israel
Gary Willig, 10/05/18
...According to News 2, Iran's allies in the regime of Bashar Al Assad are concerned by Iran's attack on Israel from Syrian soil. Russia is reportedly also unhappy with Iran's military entrenchment in Syria and is not planning on aiding Iran in the event of further military confrontations with Israel.
Iran's attack on Israel received widespread international condemnation. The White House issued a statement Thursday calling Iran’s deployment of rocket and missile systems in Syria “unacceptable”, and warned Iran would bear “full responsibility” for the consequences of its behavior.
“The U.S. condemns the Iranian regime’s provocative rocket attacks from Syria against Israeli citizens, and we strongly support Israel’s right to act in self-defense," the White House stated.
In an unusual move, the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain also came out in support of Israel's right to defend itself from Iranian aggression in Syria.
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Post by Daniel on May 10, 2018 17:05:41 GMT -5
Rouhani: We don't want new tensions in the region
Elad Benari, 11/05/18
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani claimed on Thursday that Iran does not want "new tensions" in the Middle East, after Israel carried out strikes against Iranian targets in Syria.
"Iran has always sought to reduce tensions in the region, trying to strengthen security and stability," Rouhani told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone call, according to a statement on the website of Iran's presidency quoted by AFP.
Rouhani did not mention Israel's strikes early on Thursday in Syria, or the Iranian missile attack on Israeli posts in the Golan Heights which preceded the Israeli retaliation.
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Post by Daniel on May 12, 2018 7:57:18 GMT -5
Pompeo warned Iran, ‘Harm Israel, and US will respond’ — report
By Sue Surkes 10 May 2018
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.
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Post by Daniel on May 12, 2018 9:34:32 GMT -5
Iranian official: Israel entered a dangerous game
Elad Benari, 11/05/18
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of Iran's parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, on Thursday condemned Israel for carrying out strikes in Syria against Iranian targets.
"Israel has entered a dangerous game," Boroujerdi said during a visit to the Portuguese capital Lisbon, according to AFP.
The main purpose of these attacks, supported by the United States, is to divert public opinion from the behavior of the American president (and) his decision to leave the agreement," he added, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision this week to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
"The aggression of the Zionist entity on our advisers in Syria guarantees us the right of response," he said at the time.
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Post by Daniel on May 12, 2018 9:40:01 GMT -5
Will UN Security Council hold Iran responsible for attack?
Arutz Sheva Staff, 10/05/18
...On Thursday, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon sent letters to the Security Council and UN Secretary-General calling on them to condemn Iran’s acts of aggression.
“Israel holds the government of Iran, together with the Syrian regime, directly responsible for this attack and we will continue to defend our citizens vigorously against all acts of aggression,” Danon wrote.
“Israel is not interested in escalation, but under no circumstances will we allow Iran to establish a military presence in Syria whose purpose is to attack Israel and to deteriorate an already fragile situation in the region.”
“This brazen attack on our sovereignty does not come in a vacuum,” Ambassador Danon continued. “We have cautioned repeatedly of Iran’s alarming entrenchment in Syria and this act of aggression is regrettably a realization of these very warnings.”
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Post by Daniel on May 12, 2018 11:40:27 GMT -5
Get a load of this:
'It was either disabled or out of ammo': How Israelis hit the Syrian SA-22 air defense system
11 May, 2018 RTNews
A functional SA-22 would never let a missile reach it, a former deputy head of the Russian Air Force told RT. The Russian-made system filmed getting hit by an Israeli missile in Syria was either turned off or out of ammo.
Following a massive airstrike on what it called Iranian targets in Syria on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have released footage taken aboard a Spike NLOS cruise missile, which is seen hitting what appears to be a Pantsir-S1 (NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound) air defense system.
There can be only two possible explanations for a successful strike against a Pantsir-S1: "One is that it had already used up its ammunition reserve. The other is that it was simply turned off; it wasn't battle ready," Aytech Bizhev, a former Russian Air Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief, said.
"There can be no third option as it wouldn't have let itself to be destroyed… When it's battle-ready it performs constant surveillance of enemy aircraft and has a very fast reaction time. It would've brought down those cruise missiles with either its cannons or own missiles," he explained.
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