"NATO
and the United States should change their policy because the time
when they dictate their conditions to the world has passed,"
Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Dushanbe, capital of the Central
Asian republic of Tajikistan
Constant
flow of Iranian missiles replenishes arms destroyed by Israel,
including new Fateh 313
10
May, 2018
Tehran
is keeping new missile supplies coming to Syria, undeterred by the
Israeli air strikes which destroy incoming consignments, including
the large-scale IDF bombing raids early Thursday, May 10 in the
Damascus region. Most of the missiles are shipped in to Syrian
airfields by Iranian and Syrian cargo planes.
DEBKAfile’s
military sources therefore advise caution in assessing the comment by
IDF officers that it will take Iran a long time to recover from
Thursday’s raids on their units, missile stores and command centers
in Syria. The IDF also reported that Russian commanders in Syria were
advised of the coming IDF counter-attack against Iran’s military
centers in general terms. Our sources confirm that Iran’s
government and military leaders are determined to absorb Israel’s
offensive – and keep going. Therefore, the IDF still has a long
haul ahead, running possibly into months, before Israel can be sure
that Iran has been stopped in its effort to establish a base in Syria
as a platform for aggression. Tehran’s determination to go through
with its plan is matched by Israel’s resolve to thwart it. As of
now, neither side is willing to break off the confrontation.
Our
military sources have learned that the air strike on Al Kiswa, south
of Damascus, Tuesday night, directly after President Trump announced
US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, hit an Iranian command center
for southern Syria headed by Maj. Gen. Hossein Hamadani. It
destroyed a consignment of Fateh 313 missiles. The delivery of this
missile means that Iran is upgrading the weaponry being shipped to
Syria. Fateh 313 is a short-range ballistic surface missile, whose
development by Iran’s armaments industry, extended the range of the
Fateh 110 to 500km and far improved its accuracy. It is also easier
to install at speed. In the Al Kiswa attack, 8 Revolutionary Guards
officers and men as well as Hizballah members were killed. Among
them, according to some sources, was Iranian Brig. Gen. Abdul Rasoul.
This has not been confirmed. There is no word on the casualties
inflicted by Israel’s massive air strikes early Thursday.
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