Nevertheless, Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned Israel’s actions, calling them a “blatant violation of the country’s sovereignty”.
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“This role will be reinforced if the crisis between Israel and Iran worses”, said Alexander Krylov, a foreign policy expert at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said Saturday that 11 Iranians were among the pro-regime fighters killed in strikes by Israel, which has vowed to prevent Iran gaining a military foothold in neighbouring Syria.
Israel said among the targets were weapons storage, logistics sites and intelligence centers used by elite Iranian forces in Syria.
Meanwhile, during a visit to Israel’s Golan Heights Friday, Lieberman called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to “throw the Iranians out” of his country.
Both leaders discussed the Iranian rocket attacks and Israel’s response and called for prudence and de-escalation, a German government spokesman said.
“The President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has been tasked with taking all necessary steps in preparation for Iran to pursue industrial-scale enrichment without any restrictions, using the results of the latest research and development of Iran’s fearless nuclear scientists”, the statement said. “I hope that we ended this chapter and that everyone understood”.
The Trump administration portrayed its rejection of that agreement as a response, in part, to Tehran’s interventions in the Middle East, underpinning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tough line towards Iran.
Even as Israel strains against Iran and Hezbollah having any kind of permanent military presence in Syria, its success there might depend on a major player who at the moment, remains an X-factor: Russian Federation.
Iran’s foreign minister will embark on a diplomatic tour to try to salvage the nuclear deal amid high tensions following the U.S. withdrawal and global fears over reports of unprecedented clashes with Israel in Syria.
It is a pity that the IRGC risks the lives of those Iranians and mercenary Afghans on Syrian bases, who are defenseless against Israeli attacks.
On April 14, the U.S., France, and Britain launched a series of missile strikes on military positions in Syria over its alleged chemical attack in a formerly rebel-held area near Damascus.
However, one analyst at London’s Chatham House, Yossi Mekelberg, said the strikes on Iranian targets “were likely undertaken with tacit Russian approval”.
Iran has vowed to retaliate for repeated Israeli airstrikes targeting its forces in Syria.
The White House has condemned Iranian rocket attacks on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as an “unacceptable and highly risky development for the entire Middle East”.
Russia, Iran, and Turkey regularly meet to discuss the regulation of the Syrian war, where the three countries have positioned themselves as major players.
For the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has supported groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah since the Iranian revolution in 1979, the animosity with Israel was a reason for its regional presence to spread fears and to use them as a tool for terror to destabilize Israel’s northern borders with Lebanon.
Iran has to be alarmed that Russian Federation and Israel are working in close collaboration in Syria. Israel reported none on its side.
The Israeli army claims that, before the operation, Iranian forces in Syria fired 20 rockets into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, all of which were shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system. As George Aiken the former Vermont Senator said about the costly Vietnam conflict, why don’t we just declare victory and leave?
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Syrian state media said Israeli missile strikes had hit military bases as well as an arms depot and a military radar installation, without specifying the locations.
