Posted on 05/11/2018 9:05:44 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Iranian forces in Syria did not ask the Syrian government, or even notify Syrian leaders, before launching 20 missiles at Israel just after midnight on Thursday, Fox News reported.
It appears that the regime of Bashar Assad of Syria wants to distance itself from Irans military activity in its very own back yard, Fox Newss David Lee Miller reported from the Golan Heights on Thursday.
Miller said that Fox News had learn from European sources that, The Iranian major general in charge of the Al-Quds Force in Syria, Qassem Soleimani, launched last nights attack against Israel without the knowledge or the consent of the Assad regime.
He went on to say that the Syrian claim came, Despite the fact that some Syrian military personnel took part in the aggression. It was not clear if he was referring to the rocket fire against Israel or the Syrian anti-aircraft fire that was later directed at the Israeli air force.
Sources told Fox News that the Soleimani was not accountable to Damascus and could act freely without having to report to Syrian officials.
The message from Syria may be a way of avoiding further retaliation from Israel.
Among the sites hit were Syrian air defenses, and Netanyahu said that was only because Assad had ignored his warning.
Yesterday I conveyed a clear message to the Assad regime: Our activity is directed against Iranian targets in Syria. But if the Syrian army takes action against us, we will act against it, Netanyahu warned. That is exactly what happened yesterday, Syrian army batteries launched ground-to-air missiles against us, and therefore we hit them.
The military earlier said it targeted a number of Syrian air defense systems SA-5, SA-2, SA-22, and SA-17 batteries that had fired at Israeli planes, despite the militarys ... warning
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Iran was behind both of these actions.
When push came to shove, neither Russia nor Syria stood with Iran.
Iran was behind both of these actions.
“When push came to shove, neither Russia nor Syria stood with Iran.”
The stage is now set for Saudi air force to fly cover for Israeli bombers that assault Bandar Shahpur (homeni) and destroy the refineries and crude shipping facilities.
Iran can not react in a meaningful way
“Not the same thing at all. No one is launching armed drones or firing missiles at Iran from Syrias territory.”
No one from Syria ever attacked the United States yet that hasn’t stopped the USA from waging a war against Syria to advance a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe.
Regardless of opinions on what each country is pursuing in Syria it is inarguable that they are each advancing their own interests.
None of them give a crap about Syria. It’s just a pawn.
The US, Turkey, Russia, and Iran are all involved in Syria due to competing interests in a gas pipeline.
“No one from Syria ever attacked the United States yet that hasnt stopped the USA from waging a war against Syria to advance a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe.”
You might want to catch up on your reading:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/5410130
“The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War”
“You might want to catch up on your reading:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/5410130
The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War”
Given Russia’s very good record at funding sources to promote disinformation, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russian treasury were behind the Global Research website. Russian footwork is behind the belief among a good chunk of the black community that the CIA invented AIDS to kill black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky
In 2005, Chossudovsky published the book America’s “War on Terrorism”. According to the New York Times, the “conspiracy-minded book... argued that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were simply a pretext for American incursions into the Middle East, and that Bin Laden was nothing but a boogeyman created by the United States”.[9] The book was found in the bookshelf in Osama bin Laden’s compound Abbottabad, Pakistan.[9][15][10] According to Vox, the book’s theory is that “9/11 was a United States government conspiracy to start the Iraq War and enable a “new world order” to help corporate interests. Bin Laden was, at best, a pawn in CIA interests.”[10]
Leftists used to have a consistent ideology. Today, their ideology is any enemy of America is a friend of mine. That’s why you have a left-wing website like Global Research, that would normally be against all organized religion, defending Iran’s theocratic regime.
Fine, you hate that source.
Here’s another:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar%E2%80%93Turkey_pipeline
Here’s a right-wing site with the same information:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/oil-gas-war-over-syria-4-maps
And I can go on. In any case the pipeline issue is the crux of why so many players are going into the power vacuum in Syria that the USA absolutely created by arming the rebels who became ISIS and using them as a proxy to overthrow Assad.
The Syria/Iran relationship goes back decades...way before the pipeline.
Syria & Lebanon are the gateways to Israel for Hezbollah and IRGC
I agree that Syria is a gateway for Hezbollah and Iran.
But until McCain and Obama started the civil war in Syria that gateway was kept closed by the Assad regime.
No it wasn’t. Assad has been a puppet for a long time.
Okay, I get it that you two believe that the USA is waging war against Syria for purely altruistic reasons.
Perhaps you two can explain to me what American national interest was being responsibly and admirably pursued by the Obama Administration when this was was started?
Maybe you can also tell me what Syria did to the USA in 2011 that warranted US forces to intervene in that country? What act of war did the Assad regime conduct against the USA?
Or were we just there to promote freedom and liberty and to establish stable democratic republics like we have in Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya?
“Heres a right-wing site with the same information:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/oil-gas-war-over-syria-4-maps"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
* Just what was Bulgaria famous for? An umbrella murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov
“ZeroHedge is not a right wing site”
Funny, the link you gave me to back up that assertion says it’s a right wing ‘alt right’ site.
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