| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Iran is trying to deliver weapons to or through Syria, say the Israelis |
| 2023-10-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Deputy Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General for Strategic Affairs Joshua Zarka accused Iran of trying to deliver strategic weapons to or through Syria to open a second front in the north of the Jewish state while the Israel Defense Forces are conducting an operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the south of the country. He wrote about this on his page on the social network. “Israeli strikes to disable Damascus and Aleppo airports are, in my opinion, compelling evidence that 1) the Iranian regime is trying to move strategic weapons into or through Syria to open up a front in the north and 2) the Israelis are determined to prevent this", the message says. As Regnum reported , the Syrian Ministry of Defense reported that the Syrian Aleppo International Airport was again completely disabled after air strikes by the Israeli military. Israel launched another strike on October 14 at 23:35 local time. The arrival of IDF missiles at Aleppo airport caused material damage and disabled the air harbor and runways. At the same time, the airport was only restored after Israeli missile attacks on October 12. The Israel Defense Forces said it continues to carry out retaliatory strikes at the source of the shelling, which is located in Syria. Israeli army spokesman Avichai Edrai confirmed the airstrikes on Syrian airports, explaining that missiles had previously been fired from Syria at Israel, and said that there would be more airstrikes on Syria. An employee of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israeli political scientist Simon Tsipis said that the conflict in Israel was unleashed as a pretext for the return of the United States to the Middle East. The United States was expelled from the Middle East after Russia sent its troops into Syria and prevented its president Bashar al-Assad from being “overthrown,” the expert recalled. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-10-16 07:07 |
| #1 the airport was only restored after Israeli missile attacks on October 12. So somebody was watching, and warning signs were ignored. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-16 07:03 |