by MEMRI
Intense activity is underway to bring more Iranian missiles to Syria via Iraq, so that within a year Hizbullah will have 500,000 missiles in Syria, in addition to the ones it has already deployed in Lebanon.
A
February 9, 2018 article on the pro-Hizbullah Lebanese website Dahiya
claims that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad recently rejected an
Israeli demand, relayed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, to remove
some 70,000 Iranian long-range missiles that Hizbullah has deployed
throughout Syria and are aimed at Israel. The article claimed further
that Syria and Hizbullah will wage a "joint missile campaign" against
Israel, and that Iranian experts are ready to launch missiles at Israel
from every part of Lebanon and Syria. According to the article, Assad
has instructed his army to help Hizbullah construct and camouflage
missile silos across the country; moreover, intense activity is underway
to bring more Iranian missiles to Syria via Iraq, so that within a year
Hizbullah will have 500,000 missiles in Syria, in addition to the ones
it has already deployed in Lebanon.
The article was published following reports on Israeli airstrikes in Syria on February 7, and just before the incident in which Israel fired on Iranian military facilities in Syria following the penetration of an Iranian drone into Israeli territory.
The following are translated excerpts from the article.[1]
Image: addiyar.com
"It seems that Israel felt genuinely threatened by Hizbullah's
growing missile arsenal in Syria, especially since Syria is very large,
and that is why it relayed a clear warning that Hizbullah's missiles
must be removed and that the transfer of any more missiles from Iran to
Hizbullah must be prevented – otherwise it will start a war against
Hizbullah in both Lebanon and Syria."
The article was published following reports on Israeli airstrikes in Syria on February 7, and just before the incident in which Israel fired on Iranian military facilities in Syria following the penetration of an Iranian drone into Israeli territory.
The following are translated excerpts from the article.[1]
Image: addiyar.com
"[During] the visit of the prime minister
of the Israeli enemy entity, Binyamin Netanyahu, to Moscow, he
officially requested Russia to intervene with the Syrian leadership in
order to remove some 70 thousand missiles that Hizbullah has placed on
Syrian soil with the consent of the Syrian military command and in
particular of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad...
"[These missiles] are meant to be fired
into occupied Palestine from Syrian territory. They significantly
complicate [the activity of] the Israeli enemy's air force, [since it]
will have to bombard Hizbullah's missiles and bases in Lebanon in
addition to the bases spread across Syria, which hold [these] 70,000
long-range Iranian missiles aimed at the Israeli enemy.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin relayed
the request of the Israeli enemy to Syrian President Dr. Bashar
Al-Assad, and the latter announced that Syrian refuses to remove
Hizbullah's missiles despite the Israeli warning [that if they are not
removed] it will destroy Damascus and bombard the Syrian army to pieces.
Assad [even] announced that this time the Arab Syrian army and
Hizbullah will carry out a joint missile campaign against Israel, in
which Syria will fire long-range Scud missiles, of which Syria has
1,600...
"The enemy is now surrounded along 450
kilometers of its border by Hizbullah missiles and Iranian experts [who
are ready] to fire these missiles into occupied Palestine from every
part of Lebanon and especially from every part of Syria. Hizbullah
wishes to expand its missile arsenal in Syria, so that, if the war lasts
a long time, it will have large reserves of Iranian long-range
missiles. That is why intense activity is underway along the
Iran-Iraq-Syria route to transport the Iranian missiles [to Syria]. Iran
has over two million long-range missiles, and it is acting to provide
Hizbullah with an arsenal of long-range missiles to be deployed
throughout Syria. The missiles have a range of 1,100 km and can reach
occupied Palestine from every point in Syria. If the Israeli enemy
remains idle and does not wage war for a year, Hizbullah will deploy
half a million missiles on Syrian soil, in addition to [its missiles in]
Lebanon, but especially throughout Syria, so that Israel's planes will
find it difficult to target Hizbullah's bases there.
"Syrian President Dr. Bashar Al-Assad has
permitted the Arab Syrian army to extend every necessary assistance to
Hizbullah, which is secretly digging underground missile silos in which
to install missiles and automatic missile launchers. The silos will be
equipped with large doors that rise to a height of three meters to allow
the launching of a missile, and then immediately close and lie flush
with the ground, so that the Israeli planes cannot discover [the silos].
MEMRI
Source: https://www.memri.org/reports/pro-hizbullah-lebanese-website-hizbullah-has-70000-iranian-missiles-across-syria-ready
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