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2020-11-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF targeted Damascus Intl. Airport and also Iranian IRGC affilated assets including a HQ
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Israel Air Strikes Hit Iran Targets in Syria Killing 10

[AnNahar] Israeli warplanes struck Syria Wednesday, hitting Iranian targets and killing 10 Syrian and imported muscle in what the Israeli army called a retaliatory attack after bombs were found near one of its bases on the occupied Golan Heights.

The air strikes came hours before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was to land in Israel for talks including on Iran, in what was likely to be his last visit to the staunch American ally before President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
leaves office.

An Israeli army statement said its fighter jets had overnight hit "military targets belonging to the Iranian Quds Force and the Syrian armed forces." The elite Quds Force is the main foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

The targets included "storage facilities, headquarters and military compounds" as well as "Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries," it said.

Syrian state news agency SANA said the strikes had killed three of its soldiers and maimed another.

The monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people were killed, including imported muscle as well as Syrian soldiers.

The foreigners included five fighters who were "likely Iranian and belonging to the Quds force" as well as two pro-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...
fighters of undetermined nationality, the Britannia-based monitor said.

Israel has carried out hundreds of air and missile strikes on Syria since civil war broke out there in 2011, targeting Iranian and Lebanese Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
forces as well as Syrian government troops.

- RETALIATORY STRIKES -
Israel rarely acknowledges individual strikes, but has done so when responding to what it describes as aggression inside Israeli territory.

Israel's military said it had discovered improvised bombs (IEDs) on its side of the armistice line on the Golan Heights on Tuesday.

"We are talking about three connected Claymore anti-personnel charges that were planted close to an IDF position," army front man Jonathan Conricus told news hounds Wednesday.

"This was another attempt led by Iranian Quds forces. The actual planting of the IEDs was by Syrian locals but the guidance, instruction and control was by Iranian Quds forces," he said.

Most Arab residents of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights retain Syrian citizenship, having spurned the offer of Israeli papers.

Conricus said Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes against eight separate targets inside Syria, from the armistice line on the Golan all the way to the southern outskirts of the capital Damascus.

He said they included three Iranian command centers -- a headquarters in the Damascus airport, a Quds Force base in the headquarters of Syria's seventh army division and a "secret military site which served as a hosting facility for senior Iranian delegations."

"We hope now that the message is clear -- that it is unacceptable that the Syrian regime allows and tolerates and facilitates the use by Iranian forces of Syria as a launchpad for attacks against Israel."

Israel and Syria, still technically at war, have a border along the Golan Heights, which Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967.
I seem to recall that Israel formally annexed their part of the Golan, with President Trump’s approval...
o- POMPEO VISIT -
The air strikes came hours before Pompeo was to land in Israel, for talks on Iran that are likely to focus on Israeli fears of a softer policy towards Iran after the Trump administration hands over to Democrat Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. If you believe Tara Reade you probably shouldn't vote for him....
in January.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called Trump his country's strongest-ever ally in the White House, has heaped praised on the administration for its hardline approach towards Iran. Trump's so-called "maximum pressure" campaign against the Islamic Theocratic Republic has included sanctions and scrapping of the nuclear deal agreed between Tehran and world powers during Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
's presidency.

Israeli experts have said Netanyahu is concerned that the president-elect,
...AFP has fallen behind — the current phrasing is predicted president-elect...
Obama's former vice president, will seek to re-engage Iran diplomatically, possibly by restoring the 2015 nuclear deal Trump pulled the U.S. out of.

Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdellatif al-Zayani was also in Israel for the first visit by a bigwig of the Gulf Arab state since it signed a normalization deal with Israel on September 15.

The deal was condemned as a betrayal by Iran and its regional allies.
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