Posted on 03/26/2024 9:33:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning in eastern Syria, targeting Iranian assets and operatives involved in a recent plot to smuggle advanced arms to West Bank terrorists, The Times of Israel has learned.
More than 15 people were reportedly killed in the strikes in the Deir Ezzor and al-Bukamal areas, close to Syria’s border with Iraq.
The strikes targeted assets belonging to Iran’s Unit 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Intelligence Organization, and the special operations unit of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria, known as Unit 18840, according to Israeli defense sources.
On Monday, the Shin Bet announced that it had foiled attempts by the two Iranian units to smuggle advanced weapons to West Bank Palestinian terrorists.
The strikes overnight were a response to the smuggling attempts and targeted assets related to the Iranian plot, the defense sources said.
Israel was aware that several Iranian or Iran-linked operatives were killed in the strikes.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, previously accused of inflating tolls and false reporting, claimed 15 people, most of them pro-Iran fighters including an IRGC official, were killed in the strikes.
The Observatory said that an IRGC adviser, “his two Iranian security escorts, two Syrian fighters” and five other combatants belonging to pro-Iran groups were killed in a villa in Deir Ezzor city.
The Observatory also said that a few hours earlier, an Iranian cargo plane flew from Damascus to the eastern city of Deir Ezzor carrying technical equipment and IRGC soldiers.
Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported the attack was “carried out by the Zionist regime,” its term for Israel. It identified the dead officer as Behrouz Vahedi, saying he belonged to the Quds Force.
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Good. Now kill some more of them.
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If Trump were President, he would have struck Iranian assets after the first Houthi ship attack, thus ending all Houthi ship attacks. Biden/Obama/Jarrett are so $$$ invested in Iran, they even warned them in advance of where they would strike after they killed 3 of our servicemembers...thus allowing Tehran to clear the area. Treason.
good!
( need a lot more of same )
and someday not far in future the source of these threats must be dealt with effectively, too)
Yes, Israel is on the right track. Where is our idiot in chief? I suspect he’s packed and ready for another mid-week
vacation from his job.
Both the US and Israel never seem to be able to hit the ISIS camps in eastern Syria though...go figure.
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