Fears are mounting that a full-blown war between Israel and Iran is just days away after 12 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday.
According to reports on Lebanon’s Al-Mustaqbal TV and the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya network, the names of those killed were confirmed on a messaging app connected to the Iranian military.
Dailymail.co.uk reports: SANA, Syria’s state-run news agency said Israel had fired several missiles at a military base that Iran is building close to the country’s capital, Damascus, on Saturday.
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The base is 31 miles from the Israeli border and an arms depot was reportedly destroyed in the strike.
The state-run agency also reported that two Israeli missiles had been shot down by Syrian air defences.
There has been no official comment from Israel, but in a video published on Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would not tolerate an Iranian presence in Syria.
He said: ‘Let me reiterate Israel’s policy: We will not allow a regime hell-bent on the annihilation of the Jewish state to acquire nuclear weapons.
‘We will not allow that regime to entrench itself militarily in Syria, as it seeks to do, for the express purpose of eradicating our state.’
Last month, the BBC reported that Iran is trying to establish a permanent military base inside Syria, according to a Western intelligence source.
Satellite images commissioned by the BBC apparently showed the construction of two dozen low-rise buildings, as well as additional buildings between January and October this year at the site south of Damascus.
The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s most powerful military force which also oversees an economic empire worth billions of dollars, has been fighting against Islamic State and in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the central government in Baghdad for several years.
More than a thousand members of the Guards, including senior commanders, have been killed in Syria and Iraq.
The Revolutionary Guards initially kept quiet about their military role in both Syria and Iraq but have become more outspoken about it as casualties have mounted.
They frame their engagement as an existential struggle against the Sunni Muslim fighters of Islamic State, who see Shi‘ites, the majority of Iran’s population, as apostates.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
I have written from a US centric point of view for so long, I had forgotten about much of the world. The reason I did was because the US was the cause of much of the conflict around the world, and I wished it to stop. Let’s all hope and pray that the better angels of human nature will keep further conflict. Some think this is about the Oded Yinon plan, but it seems to go much deeper than that. I am remorseful and regretful for the negative comments that I have made from a US centric position that have ever contributed to human divide around the world for so many years. God bless humanity. Go in Peace.
the only problem with this theory is…….. the actual lateral positions of these countries….. nothing will happen…none of these countries have any BALLS…..
Ask yourself this. Why wasn’t one Israeli soldier killed fighting AGAINST the Christian butchering head choppers called ISIS? While thousands of secular arabs and Iranian Shia Moslems were? Israel supported and had hundreds of their operatives fighting FOR ISIS.
Maybe because the ISIS leader, Al Baghdadi, has a REAL name that is Shimon Elyat.
and they fight for monthly paying salary they don’t care anything they care about there family!!
ISIS slims are (((they’re))) dogs.
in coming decades the Israeli Satan state & 9/11 style WORLD POLICE MAN will not be in Arab lands,the hour is coming let’s watch the movie!! i probably hate the women baking AL Saud house because of baking this BAPHOMETs here in the holy region
I speak only English, so this isn’t a criticism, but you mean backing, not baking. I agree.
trying for better keyboard typing
Rumors have it that It is growing increasingly likely Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted over charges related to bribery, fraud and breach of trust, local media has said. One daily newspaper, Israel Hayom, declared on its front page on Thursday that police have “more than enough evidence” to charge the prime minister, and his indictment is imminent. Now is this a man whom we can trust to tell the truth?
“War imminent”? That has to be just a tad overstated. Iran at presnt does not have the capability to project its power into Israel in any strategic way. Israel is armed to the teeth with all the very latest offensive and defensive weapons.