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2020-09-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
New satellite photos show airstrikes on secret missile facility in Syria
(Jpost] Crucial "elements" of the site were hit.
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New images reveal evidence of an attack on a secretive missile facility in Syria. The photos, released by ImageSat International on Sunday, show that two structures at al-Safirah missile factory near Aleppo were hit. ISI assessed an intelligence report that this attack was "intended to weaken the missile production in Syria." It also says that this factory may have been producing missiles for Hezbollah. Crucial "elements" of the site were hit.

ImageSat International frequently reveals important information using satellites about sensitive sites and Arclight airstrike
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s like this. On September 3, they also revealed images of an airstrike at Damascus International Airport. The Syrian regime and its media have blamed Israel for some airstrikes over the last several years. On September 3, ISI said that the strike could send a "strategic message to Tehran." ISI also revealed that a blast at a secretive missile facility in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in June at Khojir likely temporarily halted missile production.

At al-Safirah the airstrike took place on September 11. It came a week after two other airstrikes in Syria that regime media and others reported. At al-Safirah ISI assesses that structured played a role in missile production. "The facility, which probably contained explosives was destroyed." A second structure, that may have had machinery, was damaged.

The images make it hard to determine what these buildings were. The buildings look like two-story structures. They are not fancy and they do not stand out. They are off a roads apparently part of a larger facility. Many Syrian regime facilities like this look the same. They are not, in this sense, interesting to look at. This fits the model of Iran’s network of missile production facilities across the region.

Iran has trafficked missiles to Iraq. It has sent precision guided munitions to Hezbollah via Syria. It has also sought to help Hezbollah build factories in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
. Israel’s former Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said in January 2009 that Israel carried out more than 1,000 airstrikes on Iranian targets in Syria.

Al-Safirah has been struck before, according to local accounts. It was hit in May when Syrian air defense tried to stop an airstrike. In April 2019 an alleged Syrian surface to surface missile site near Masyaf was struck, causing damage to a factory. ISI also published satellite photos of the site. It assessed that it was constructed between 2014 and 2016.

This shows the extraordinary number of these kinds of sites, many allegedly linked to or controlled by Iran. Iran has recently announced new longer ranges for missiles, cruise missiles and drones as well as better guidance and drones as well as air defense systems. Iran tried to send its 3rd Khordad air defense system to Syria in April 2018, Ynet has reported.

In addition, Iran built the Imam Ali base near Albukamal near the Iraqi border. That site has also been hit by airstrikes many times. Iran also uses a network to smuggle weapons via the T-2 and T-3 and T-4 bases in Syria. On September 3, 2020 Arabic media accused Israel of a strike on the T-4 base near Palmyra. The same site was reported by Syrian media to have been hit in April and July 2018.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-14 00:12|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top
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#1 Appears to be not so secret.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-14 07:08||   2020-09-14 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Missiles have warheads. That's the point. Solid fuel missiles are full of stuff that goes whoosh when under control and bang when not under control.
When a bunch of fertilizer can self-initiate and destroy a port, why can't an airstrike set off stuff just jonesing to explode? Not a big enough hole. here.
From which it can be deduced that these facilities were doing some kind of sub-component manufacturing.
Boring. Also, if you're going to expend resources, why not make the other guy expend his by having his stuff explode itself...with a little encouragement.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-09-14 07:59||   2020-09-14 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Stuff that goes boom can be easily replaced. The hard to replace, expensive equipment and engineers were likely what was there, not the stuff that goes boom.
Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-14 15:47||   2020-09-14 15:47|| Front Page Top

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