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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Until the Syrian land is cleared

2023-08-14

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Arab tribal militias operating against US troops in eastern Syria fired rockets at three US military installations in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah.

This is reported by Fars News Agency.

There was no information about possible casualties or damage to objects.

According to the agency, the Syrian fighters said they would continue to destroy the strongholds of the American troops, "until the entire Syrian land is cleared of the occupiers."

Earlier, explosions occurred at a US military base in the Syrian province of Hasakah.

For those who complained that American bases in the USA are not shelled.
Periodic shelling with makeshift rockets and UAVs continues.

As a rule, various Iranian proxies do this. The campaign of US retaliatory strikes against Iranian proxies in western Iraq and eastern Syria cannot stop this process. Iran is weakly sensitive to losses and its presence is only growing. There are no problems with recruiting new personnel for the Axis of Resistance.

Similarly, Iranian proxies regularly attack logistics convoys and US bases in Iraq, especially outside of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Actually, the near-zero result of the campaign of retaliatory strikes and the annoying activity of Iranian proxies in Iraq and Iran are forcing the US to voice threats to try to block the border from Iraq to Syria in order to destroy the Tehran-Beirut land corridor.

From a practical point of view, this is a rather problematic task, even with direct intervention, and the threat itself will not lead to a decrease in attacks, but to their intensification, since for Iran the land corridor to Lebanon is a strategic priority, so attempts to block it will only lead to increased hostilities in the area of the Syrian-Iraqi border and more active strikes against American bases.

In principle, such an attempt by the United States would suit Russia perfectly, but I believe that the United States will not give us such a gift now. There is also an intervention in Niger that needs to be supported.

PS. It is worth noting that yesterday the IRGC said that Iran's accusations that it poses a threat to the countries of the region are unfounded.

Yes, but they have to say that, don’t they?

Iran, according to the IRGC, poses a threat only to the US, NATO and the Zionist entity, and the US is the driving force behind global piracy and robbery.
Interesting that a Russian commenter, given that President Putin has been wooing Israel for years, hoping for influence through Israel’s large population of Soviet emigrants, here uses Iran’ term: the Zionist entity.
More from regnum.ru
US military bases in Syria hit by rocket fire

Missile attacks on three US military facilities in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah were carried out by detachments of militias of Arab tribes. This was reported on August 12 by Fars News Agency.

As specified in a statement given to the agency by the militias, five rockets were fired at the positions of the American occupying forces in the area of the Koniko gas field. Four more missiles flew to the US base located near the El Omar oil field. One rocket exploded at the airfield at the Al-Shaddadi base.

The Syrian militias said in a statement that they would continue to destroy strongholds of American troops, wherever they were. The fighters specified that they would act until "until they clear the entire Syrian land of the invaders."

Earlier, IA Regnum reported about explosions on the territory of the US military base in the Ash-Shaddadi region in the south of the Syrian province of Hasakah. It was noted that the explosions occurred in houses on the territory of the Al-Jabsa oil field, which the US military uses as a military base.

Damascus considers the military presence of US troops in Syria as an illegal occupation, which the United States decided to plunder the natural resources belonging to the Syrian people.

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