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2023-04-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran said to be rallying allied terror groups to launch coordinated attacks on Israel
[IsraelTimes] Wall Street Journal report says IRGC Quds Force commander Esmail Ghaani was in Beirut last week for meetings with Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, Hezbollah before rocket strikes into north

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...
has reportedly been rallying krazed killer groups in allied countries and regions to launch attacks against Israel, and coordinated recent Hamas rocket attacks from the Gazoo

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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip and from areas controlled by Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, earlier this month.

According to a Friday report in The Wall Street Journal, Iranian General Esmail Ghaani, the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, held a series of covert meetings with krazed killer groups in the Middle East in recent weeks, including some operating in Syria and Iraq, to discuss attacks on Israel on multiple fronts and with renewed determination, supported by Iran. The IRGC, including the Quds Force, is a US-designated terrorist organization.

Last week, Ghaani was in Beirut to meet with big shots of Paleostinian terror groups Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, as well as Hezbollah, at the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing "people familiar with the discussions."

Soon after, a barrage of 34 rockets was fired from southern 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...
into northern Israel, with 25 intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. At least three people were maimed and several buildings were damaged. The salvo last Thursday was the largest number of rockets fired from Lebanon since the 2006 war, during which thousands of rockets were launched at Israel.

Volleys of rockets were also launched from the Gaza Strip that same day.

Israel responded with Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Gaza and artillery fire into Lebanon, and pointed the finger at Hamas in southern Lebanon, where the group has a strong presence in Paleostinian refugee camps. By targeting "terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas" in Lebanon, Israel was hoping to avoid a wider conflagration with Hezbollah, which had signaled to Israel that it wasn’t involved. Security analysts agree it is unlikely Hamas would attack without at least the tacit approval of the Iran-backed terror group.

The Journal reported that the details of these attacks on Israel were finalized with Ghaani during meetings in Beirut last week with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, his deputy Saleh al-Arouri, and Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
who on Friday mocked Israeli counterstrikes in southern Lebanon last week.

Speaking at a ceremony in Beirut marking "Quds Day," or Jerusalem Day — an annual show of support for the Paleostinians held on the last Friday of every Islamic holy month of Ramadan — Nasrallah called Israeli statements regarding retaliatory strikes "a barefaced lie" and that "no Hezbollah or Hamas infrastructure was struck."

Rockets from Syria into the Golan Heights followed the missiles from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning last week, to which Israel also responded with an airstrike on a military compound belonging to the Syrian army’s 4th Division, led by Maher Assad, the brother of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
, as well as a radar and artillery posts used by the army. Israel also carried out a dronezap against the launchers used to fire the rockets into Israel.

The Journal said Ghaani’s efforts "to unite Tehran’s allies is a sharp escalation" in the clandestine war between Iran and Israel, whose prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to prevent Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons at all costs. Netanyahu has repeatedly said Israel could use military force to achieve this goal and has been vehemently opposed to the 2015 nuclear agreement and any attempts to revive it.

In recent years, Israel has also acted to counter Iran’s entrenchment on its northern borders with Lebanon and Syria, and has conducted multiple airstrikes to prevent Iran from transferring advanced weapons destined for Hezbollah and other groups via Syria.

Strikes late last month attributed to Israel in Syria killed at least two IRGC military advisers.

As a general rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but it has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country over the last decade. Additionally, airstrikes attributed to Israel have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense systems.

According to the Journal report, in late March, Ghaani held meetings in Syria with Paleostinian terror group leaders "to discuss a possible coordinated attack on Israel," and told them Iran had acquired information about alleged Israeli plans to act against Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad in Syria and Lebanon.

The Iranian general urged them to "take action quickly" and promised that Iran "would provide the necessary tools to carry out attacks to deter Israel from making its own strikes," according to the people familiar with these meetings.

Ghaani said "it was important to attack Israeli targets within days in response to Israeli strikes that had killed Iranian advisers in Syria."

Four days before rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, Ghaani was in Beirut for meetings with Hamas and Hezbollah to plan the attack, the report said.

Ghaani replaced Iranian General Qassem Soleimani
, who was killed three years ago in a US missile attack in Baghdad, an operation Israel reportedly helped with.

Iran has vowed to avenge his death. Soleimani, as Quds Force commander, was credited with helping to arm, train, and lead gangs across the region, including the Shiite militias in Iraq, fighters in Syria and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, Hezbollah, and Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad. The US held him responsible for the deaths of many of its soldiers in Iraq.

Ghaani, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war and a commander who played a key role in recruiting Shiite militias to bolster Assad’s forces in Syria, plays a "quieter, less visible" role than Soleimani but his strategy, as reported by the Journal, also marks "a growing threat to Israel — and a challenge for the US at a time when other powers such as China and Russia are attempting to play larger roles in the Middle East."

China recently brokered a deal between Iran and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
to renew ties after a seven-year split, a sign of Beijing’s growing pull.

Riyadh would have been a major addition to the 2020 US-brokered Abraham Accords that normalized ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain — a close Saudi ally — and Morocco.

The Journal report said a key Tehran objective in the region was to prevent a rapprochement between Israel and neighboring Arab-majority countries.
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