Iran stated Friday that Israeli strikes on dozens of targets in Syria affiliated with the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps’ al-Quds Force a day earlier have been a try to support “terrorists” undermining the regime of President Bashar Assad.
“The Zionist regime cannot stand peace and stability in the region and sees its own safety in making the region all the more unstable,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi stated, in accordance to Iran’s official Press TV.
On Thursday morning, F-15 and F-16 fighter jets bombed over 50 Iranian targets all through Syria because the Israel air pressure carried out an in depth marketing campaign, dubbed “Operation House of Cards,” to try to destroy Iran’s navy presence in the nation, the military stated Thursday.
The bombings got here in response to what Israel stated was a tried large-scale rocket assault on its territory.
But Qasemi acknowledged that Israel carried out the strikes in support of teams preventing to convey down the Syrian regime, calling these teams “proxies” of the United States, Israel and their regional allies.
“The repeated attacks by the Zionist regime on Syrian territory were carried out under pretexts that were invented by themselves and are without foundation,” he stated, in accordance to the semi-official information company ISNA.
A photograph launched by the Israeli navy on May 11, 2018 exhibiting an alleged Iranian logistics website in Syria. (IDF Spokesperson)
“Today, the main supporters of these groups are directly attacking and invading Syrian territories in an attempt to avenge the many failures of their self-created terrorists and tip the scales in their favor,” he stated.
Qasemi criticized the worldwide neighborhood, which asserted that Israel was merely exercising its proper to defend itself in opposition to Iranian assault.
“The Zionist regime’s repeated attacks on Syrian soil under self-proclaimed, baseless pretexts amount to a blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty and goes against all international conventions,” he stated.
The United States, UK, France, Germany and a host of different nations together with, unusually, Bahrain have affirmed Israel’s proper to defend itself in opposition to Iranian aggression.
Damascus and Tehran have usually accused Israel and its allies of propping up the “terrorists” in Syria’s years-long civil warfare. Press TV claimed that the Syrian military has “repeatedly seized huge quantities of Israeli-made weapons and advanced military equipment from the foreign-backed militants inside Syria.”
The Israeli mission — the biggest air marketing campaign it carried out in Syria in over 40 years — was “very successful,” a senior air pressure officer stated Thursday, however warned that Iranian forces in Syria are nonetheless believed to be in possession of surface-to-surface missiles that could possibly be fired at Israel.
The sortie got here after Iran fired 20 missiles towards Israel simply after midnight on Thursday morning, the IDF stated. Four of the missiles have been knocked down by the Iron Dome air protection system and the remainder failed to attain Israeli territory, in accordance to the navy.
The military additionally printed photos Friday of what it stated was an Iranian Quds Force compound in al-Kisweh, south of Damascus, and an “Iranian Logistics Compound” 10 kilometers northwest of the capital.