Russia reportedly issued a “warning” to Iran hours earlier than 20 missiles had been fired on the Golan Heights from Syria, prompting a large Israeli counter-strike.
The Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported Friday that Russian deputy overseas minister Sergei Ryabkov had conveyed the unspecified warning to his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, in Tehran on Wednesday.
Earlier that day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow to fulfill Russian President Vladimir Putin. As said by the report, Netanyahu confirmed the Russian premier proof that Iran had established bases in Syria and was making ready to launch missiles at Israel.
Ryabkov’s warning reportedly prompted Iranian considerations that an assault on Israel might hinder efforts to salvage the nuclear deal within the wake of US President Donald Trump’s pullout from it on Tuesday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri argued about the advantages of the nuclear deal with its remaining events — the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China — the report stated.
“Rouhani accused the [Iranian Revolutionary] Guards of deliberately attempting to obstruct the nuclear deal,” a source advised the paper. Bagheri reportedly answered, “What has the deal brought to us in order to protect it?”
On Thursday morning, F-15 and F-16 fighter jets bombed over 50 Iranian targets all through Syria in an in depth Israeli Air Force marketing campaign, dubbed “Operation House of Cards,” to try to destroy Iran’s navy presence within the nation, the military stated Thursday.
The IDF stated the sorties got here after Iran fired 20 missiles towards Israel simply after midnight on Thursday morning. Four of the missiles had been knocked down by the Iron Dome air protection system and the remainder fell quick of Israeli territory, in keeping with the navy.
The Israeli mission — the biggest air marketing campaign it carried out in Syria in over 40 years — was “very successful,” a senior air power officer stated Thursday, however warned that Iranian forces in Syria are nonetheless believed to be in possession of surface-to-surface missiles that may very well be fired at Israel.
The military additionally printed footage 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.
Iran denied the declare that it fired rockets at Israeli territory and insisted it doesn't keep navy bases in Syria.