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Report: Satellite Images Reveal Iran Building Missile Factory in Syria
Haaretz ^ | 17 August 2017

Posted on 08/22/2017 8:55:01 AM PDT by Lorianne

Report based on images from Israeli satellite seem to reveal Scud missile factory identical to one seen in Iran An Israeli television report said on Tuesday that Iran is building a facility in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets, and showed satellite images it said were of the site under construction.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week that Iran was strengthening its foothold in its ally Syria as Islamic State fighters were being displaced, and said Israel was watching developments and would act against any threat.

"Our policy is clear: We vehemently oppose the military buildup by Iran and its proxies, primarily Hezbollah, in Syria and we will do whatever it takes to protect Israel's security," he said in a speech.

The Channel 2 television news report showed images it said were taken by an Israeli satellite showing a site in northwest Syria near the Mediterranean coastal town of Baniyas, saying some of the construction indicated explosives would be stored there.

The images from the Eros B satellite showcase the site's ability to store underground missiles, the reports said.

It compared images of buildings it said were of a rocket factory near Tehran to structures at the Syrian site, and said there was a strong resemblance between them.

Netanyahu has been harshly critical of a 2015 deal that six world powers including the United States under then-president Barack Obama struck with Iran to curb its nuclear program in return for an end to multilateral sanctions.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria
KEYWORDS: iran; iraniannukes; iranmissiles; iransyria; iraq; netanyahuiran; netanyahusyria; scuds; syria; syriairan
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Lots of satellite images as source.

I thought Iran was going to rebuild infrastructure and schools with all the money we sent back? What gives?

1 posted on 08/22/2017 8:55:01 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Take it out.


2 posted on 08/22/2017 8:57:14 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Lorianne

Probably have women and children building missle site.


3 posted on 08/22/2017 8:58:02 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Lorianne

...global Whack-A-Mole?


4 posted on 08/22/2017 8:58:19 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Lorianne

Paid for by US taxpayers, through Imam Hussein Obama
and his agents from Lerner to Kerry.


5 posted on 08/22/2017 8:59:47 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Lorianne

Message to the IAF: Get those F15Is gassed up and ready to go. We’ve got another mission to accomplish.


6 posted on 08/22/2017 8:59:53 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Lorianne

...in northwest Syria...

Odd in that Iran is east of Syria. Also isn’t there a Russian S-400 SAM base built there recently. Could be a complication for the Israelis.


7 posted on 08/22/2017 9:02:21 AM PDT by McGruff (2017 or 1984?)
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To: Lorianne

Assad is such a nice guy


8 posted on 08/22/2017 9:02:42 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Parley Baer

Take it out.... Naw.... not now ... wait til they move in all the expensive machinery


9 posted on 08/22/2017 9:06:25 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: JudgemAll

Who cares if he is nice or not.
It’s THEIR COUNTRY.
If they want Assad gone, then they can do it themselves.

We should not care whether someone is ‘nice’ or not.
It’s totally irrelevant.


10 posted on 08/22/2017 9:06:29 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Iran does not build a missile factory in Syria without Russian approval and likely, active support.

Of course we should take it out.

The volume of Russia’s protest should speak for itself.


11 posted on 08/22/2017 9:12:46 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Lorianne

Totally unexpected.


12 posted on 08/22/2017 9:12:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: McGruff

Just like it was a complication in taking out the reactor that the mullahs and Norks were building along the Euphrates? The one that they had no idea of what was about to happen, until after it did?


13 posted on 08/22/2017 9:23:11 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Parley Baer

MOAB II


14 posted on 08/22/2017 9:25:46 AM PDT by thinden
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To: mazda77

Then there was that Sep 6 2007 little take-out, man what a mission.


15 posted on 08/22/2017 9:29:04 AM PDT by txhurl (Dog: 'he's just the cook')
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To: Lorianne

Not our problem. Israel’s problem. Yes. But not our problem.


16 posted on 08/22/2017 9:31:39 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: txhurl

That’s the one. They never even got a chance to say OH SHIITE! The lights went out and all of a sudden the shadows came a callin’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard


17 posted on 08/22/2017 9:37:31 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Lorianne
Mission accomplished.


18 posted on 08/22/2017 9:43:05 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: Lorianne

Once construction is complete, and resources expended, is the time to destroy it.


19 posted on 08/22/2017 9:43:10 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Lorianne

In before the nuke ‘em from orbit ping !


20 posted on 08/22/2017 9:51:40 AM PDT by onona (Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
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