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| Iran Says It Has Carried Out 700 Drone Attacks in Syria |
| 2018-10-17 |
| [An Nahar] Iran's Revolutionary Guards have carried out 700 dronezaps against forces of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group (IS) in Syria, its aerospace chief told conservative news agency Fars on Tuesday. "Our bomber drones have carried out 700 military operations using smart bombs against ISIS," said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, using the Arabic acronym for IS. "They were used in eliminating tanks, personnel carriers, cars used for suicide kabooms and 23- millimetre cannons -- these were targets prized by ISIS and we significantly turned the tide of battle," he added. The guards most recently used military drones against IS targets in Syria on October 1, in retaliation for a deadly attack in September on a military parade in Iran's southwest claimed by the holy warrior group. Seven military drones as well as six ballistic missiles struck the "IS headquarters" in the eastern Syrian town of Hajin, about 24 kilometres (15 miles) north of Albu Kamal bordering Iraq, state TV reported. Iranian media said published images indicated the drones were locally-produced "Saegheh" craft, reverse-engineered from a US RQ-170 Sentinel captured by Iran in 2011. Iran's armed forces chief of staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, said at the time that the strikes were the first time the drones had "crossed multiple countries and reached their targets." It was also the first time Iran had officially announced it was using combat drones outside of its borders, the conservative Tasnim news agency said. |
| Posted by:Fred |