Posted on 06/19/2006 5:00:39 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
DEBKAfile Exclusive: New Syria-Iranian defense treaty opens way for Iran`s Revolutionary Guards to deploy on Israel’s Golan border by summer’s end
June 19, 2006, 11:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian defense minister Gen. Mustafa Najjar said: “Syria’s security is part of Iran’s security,” when he signed a new military treaty with his visiting Syrian counterpart, Gen. Hassan Turkmani (picture) in Tehran last Thursday June 15.
Sunday, June 18, Israel’s parliamentary foreign affairs and defense committee inspected its northern border, along with the deputy chief of staff Moshe Kaplinsky and OC Northern command Udi Adam. Both Tehran and Damascus referred to the tour as Israel’s response to their new treaty.
DEBKAfile’s military sources add: At the signing ceremony, the Syrian official waved away reporters’ questions on whether Iran would be establishing a military base in Syria – “The language of a (foreign) military base in our country is alien to us. I want to say that it is not on the agenda.”
Nonetheless, military sources note that he rejected the term “bases” - but did not rule out “foreign forces” in nSyrian bases, which Persian Gulf and Pakistani military sources are certain was agreed secretly between the two countries. They have learned that Iran has offered to deploy Revolutionary Guards on the Golan border with Israel by the end of summer, because as Najjar said at the signing: “We have a common front against Israel’s threats.”
DEBKAfile’s Tehran sources disclose the Iranians seek to attain three objectives by deploying RG units to the Golan heights:
1. Another direct front line against Israel.
2. A forward position for an Iranian electronic warning station to sound a timely alarm of the takeoff of American warplanes or missiles from the eastern Mediterranean basin on their way to attack.
3. The station can also keep electronic track of movements on Israeli air and missile bases, covering also Arrow anti-missile missile systems.
The Syrian military delegation, which spent five days in Tehran, brought a year of secret negotiations to their conclusion. The breadth of Syrian-Iranian military relations can be measured by the military treaty’s financial scope of $800 m and the size of the delegation Damascus sent to Tehran - 60 officers representing every branch of the Syrian armed forces, including intelligence and munitions industries.
For years, both countries have supported the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and anti-Israeli Palestinian factions including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which maintain headquarters in Damascus
Actual title, didn't all fit -
New Syria-Iranian defense treaty opens way for Iran`s Revolutionary Guards to deploy on Israel’s Golan border by summer’s end
Nonetheless, military sources note that he rejected the term “bases” - but did not rule out “foreign forces” in nSyrian bases, which Persian Gulf and Pakistani military sources are certain was agreed secretly between the two countries. They have learned that Iran has offered to deploy Revolutionary Guards on the Golan border with Israel by the end of summer, because as Najjar said at the signing: “We have a common front against Israel’s threats.”
Good. If there is a war, then the republican Guard will perish quickly as well.
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Not the first time Syria has deployed in the Golan.
Ba'athists aligning with Shiites? That should prove interesting to say the least.
Actually, Syria and Iran have been aligned for a long time.
"Ba'athists aligning with Shiites? That should prove interesting to say the least."
That can't be right. The media said baathists such as baby assad and saddam are secularists and would never align with the likes of the jihadist shiites or sunnis. I suppose the media back in the 30's would have found it impossibe for hitler and stalin to sign a non-agression pact.
Ideological nutcases are the easiest to kill. Though they may fight like demons as individuals, Muslim radicals make poor fighting units. Their other-worldly zeal makes them overly emotional -- and thus easily confused, frustrated, and routed. Well trained, professional forces like those of the US, UK and IDF will dispatch these idiots with ease. Paradise wont' have enough virgin sows for all of them...
That works fine if you can get them to fight a conventional war. They are good at guerilla tactics and just spilling enough blood to make westerners tired.
"The Pact of Dung"
Iran is the sponsor of Hezbollah which has given the Israelis and the Americans many problems over the years. In effect they chased both militaries out of Lebanon.
This is extremely dangerous.
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