by Neta Bar, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
"There appears to be a strange type of correlation between the Zionist regime's airstrikes and the Russian air defenses not working," says senior Iranian lawmaker
A senior Iranian
lawmaker on Sunday condemned the Kremlin for allegedly preventing the
Syrian army from using its Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile
systems against Israeli warplanes earlier this month.
Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, the chairman of
the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy
Committee, said the Russians had made sure to disable the advanced S-300
systems during an Israeli airstrike.
"There appears to be a strange type of
correlation between the Zionist regime's airstrikes and the Russian air
defenses not working," he said.
Falahatpisheh also said Israeli reports of destroyed Iranian infrastructure in Syria were completely false.
"The Zionists aspire to undermine the
stability of the regime in Syria, with the aim of causing Iran to
respond and to push into a corner," Falahatpisheh remarked, adding that
he had visited the sites bombed by Israel.
Last week, Iran's state-run news network
reported that Russian air defenses had failed to function during an
Israeli airstrike on Damascus. Russia and Iran have clashed in the past
over Moscow's refusal to transfer more advanced models of the S-300 to
Syria.
On Friday, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov denied Moscow had formed an alliance with Iran in Syria and said the Kremlin was deeply committed to Israel's security.
Neta Bar, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2019/01/28/iran-russia-prevented-syrians-from-using-s-300-against-israel/
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