DAMASCUS, Syria (OfficialWire) — A top Iranian official visiting Damascus said Monday that Israel will regret its “latest aggression” on Syria and urged the entire Muslim world to be ready to defend the Syrian people.
Israel has all but confirmed it was behind the airstrike near Damascus last week. U.S. officials said the Israelis struck a military research center and a convoy next to it carrying anti-aircraft weapons destined for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.
“Just as it regretted its aggressions after the 33-day, 22-day and eight-day wars, today the Zionist entity will regret the aggression it launched against Syria,” Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran’s National Security Council, told a news conference in Damascus. He was referring to past wars between Israel and Hezbollah or the Palestinian Hamas rulers of Gaza.
Syria said has vowed to retaliate for the airstrike.
Iran is Syria’s closest regional ally and Jalili used his 3-day visit to pledge Tehran’s continued support for the President Bashar Assad’s regime.
Read More at OfficialWire . By Albert Aji.
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At least Israel has as set when if comes to the security of its nation, our president has come equipped with a vagina and has made bending over a legacy for himself.
Israel better not wait. They need to do something before it is too late. The only reason Obama is sending planes and tanks to the Middle East is to help wipe Israel off the map!!!
I look forward to the day when Israel Nukes all of the Muslim world and then exterminates all Islam from the face of the Earth.
Way back in the `50`s Isreal said that they will defend themselves at all cost. If it came a day when all of Israel was about to be over run and destroyed. The last thing they will do is launch a nuclear strike on every muslem capital in every country will cease to exist from Afganistan to libya and everything in between. A nuke in Isreal from anywhere would be the end of the muslem world. Fifty million rag heads gone. POOF.
“Iran is Syria’s closest regional ally and Jalili used his 3-day visit to pledge Tehran’s continued support for the President Bashar Assad’s regime.” Is it possible that Obama has avoided direct involvement in Syria for fear of offending Iran? Why, after all, did he ignore the “Purple Revolution” in June 2009? Why did he choose an Iranian sympathizer to become the Secretary of Defense? Why was Iran publicly celebrating his choice for this position? Why did he send Valerie Jarrett go on a secret mission to Iran, unreported in the mainstream press, especially interesting given her Iranian heritage? Why does he refuse to state unequivocally that we will use force to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons? Why do the American people refuse to open their eyes to see what is clearly obvious and unequivocal?