Posted on 08/16/2006 2:58:50 AM PDT by HAL9000
London, Aug. 16 – Iran masterminded the July 12 attack on an Israeli military squad by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah which ignited a major military offensive against the group by the Jewish state, Iran Focus has learnt.A well-placed source inside the clerical establishment told Iran Focus that prior to the start of hostilities Tehran dispatched several top officials including the chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to attend a summit in Syria which took place on July 4 and focused on ways to upset the regional balance in the Middle East.
Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, travelled to the Syrian capital last month, staying in Damascus between July 1 and 6 under the cover of pilgrimage to a revered Shiite Muslim shrine.
Simultaneously, several top Hezbollah officials arrived in Damascus for what they claimed was to meet Hassan Khomeini.
On July 4, the secretary general of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani made an unannounced trip to the Syrian capital.
The Supreme Commander of the IRGC Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Staff of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi also secretly travelled to Damascus to attend the summit.
The summit, which was held at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, was also attended by top Syrian security officials and Iran’s ambassador to Syria Hassan Akhtari. The radical Shiite cleric was formerly the chief of staff of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
During the summit a politico-military strategy was drawn up for a possible attack by Hezbollah fighters against Israel to trigger a regional war, and the militia was called on to prepare for an offensive.
Days later, on July 11, following a round of talks in Brussels with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West, Larijani made a second unannounced to trip to Damascus. There he met and held talks with Syrian Vice-President Farouk al-Shara, making the final arrangements for the actions that were to follow.
Finally, while meeting a top Hezbollah official in the Iranian embassy, Larijani gave the order for the Lebanese militia to mount the cross-border attack on the Jewish state, triggering the 34-day war which has left 157 Israelis and 1,110 Lebanese dead.
as if we didn't already know this? lol
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I know. This is news how?
And ?
This is news ?
No Sh*t!
I'm stunned! I got to lie down from the shock of this news. /s
The author has a firm grasp of the obvious
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Hold the front page! Last night a bear was seen to be relieving himself IN THE WOODS!
This is really breaking news?
Next thing we will know terrorists will be found to be predominately moslim.
WHAT????? Iran behind the war?? I know that I'm taken aback. What's next? Hezbollah refusing to disarm???
Very good point. Also, why did Iran want a regional war at this point in time ? The conventional wisdom here states it was a distraction from Iran's nuclear ambitions. Well the problem with that theory is that the conflict in Israel has now made the Iranian nuclear issue the top global threat matrix issue. Apparently Iran did not get its desired result from its regional escalation pressure, whatever that result may have been. Perhaps this is why the beaten Hezbollha will have to be forcefully disarmed ? In other words, the UN is like the end of round bimbo during a boxing match. Nice to look at, but too expensive for anyone to seriously engage.
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