"Israel Will Not Let This Happen": Iran Is Reportedly Building A Military Base In Syria

[Swordsmyth]

A report was published by the BBC, according to which Iran is establishing a permanent military base inside Syria, citing a Western intelligence source. The report, predictably, comes amid growing tensions over Iranian influence in Syria and across the region, and as the Saudi-Israel "alliance" is desperate to find a pretext to begin war. As the BBC adds, the Iranian military is said to have established a compound at a site used by the Syrian army outside El-Kiswah, 14 km (8 miles) south of Damascus.
Needless to say, for Israel this would constitute the crossing of a "red line" by Iran: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu recently warned that Iran wanted to establish itself militarily in Syria. "Israel will not let that happen," he said.
Satellite images commissioned by the BBC "seem to show" construction activity at the site referenced by the intelligence source between January and October this year. The images shows a series of two dozen large low-rise buildings - likely for housing soldiers and vehicles.

According to the satellite images, in recent months additional buildings have been added to the site. However, the BBC at least concedes that it is impossible to independently verify the purpose of the site and the presence of the Iranian military. Still, that did not prevent someone, arguably the CIA, to "conclude" what is going on.
An official from another Western country told the BBC that ambitions for such a long-term presence in Syria would not be illogical for Iran. Its adversaries have accused Iran of seeking to establish not just an arc of influence but a logistical land supply line from Iran through to the Shia Hezbollah movement in Lebanon. With so-called Islamic State having sufffered terminal defeats on the battlefield and losing its last strongholds, attention is increasingly turning to what comes next and the new map of power and influence in Syria.

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...ary-base-syria

[Pauls' Revere]

Doesn't Syria have the right to let other nations place bases in their country? As we do in Poland for example.

[phill4paul]

The Sauds will take care of that for Israel.

[Pauls' Revere]

I just don't understand how Syria can still be called a Nation. ISIS is/was there, USA is there, Russia is there, Iran is there, Hezbollah is there, who else?

[Swordsmyth]

I just don't understand how Syria can still be called a Nation. ISIS is/was there, USA is there, Russia is there, Iran is there, Hezbollah is there, who else?

Kurds and Turks.

[Pauls' Revere]

Kurds and Turks.

CIA, Moasad.

[Danke]

CIA, Moasad.

Regular Israeli army in Golan Heights.

[Swordsmyth]

Multiple Israeli news outlets reported Saturday that the US, Russia, and Jordan have reached a ceasefire agreement over southern Syria which proposes to expel Iran-backed militias from the border with Israel in the Golan Heights. The reports came on the same day presidents Trump and Putin issued a joint statement on Syria after meeting on the sidelines of the APEC conference in Danang, Vietnam, which reaffirmed de-confliction efforts as both countries fight ISIS and underscored willingness to keep Syria's territorial integrity intact while pursuing the Geneva process.
Though the joint statement references the "Memorandum of Principles concluded in Amman, Jordan", it doesn't make explicit reference to Iran or Hezbollah, but more broadly to efforts for "the reduction, and ultimate elimination of foreign forces and foreign fighters from the area to ensure a more sustainable peace."

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...ree-zone-syria

[Swordsmyth]

Israeli general in unprecedented public offer to share intelligence with Saudi Arabia as alarm grows over Iran

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-general-unprecedented-public-offer-164346109.html

[Swordsmyth]

Israeli Defense Minister Contradicts Netanyahu: "There Is No Iranian Military Force On Syrian Land"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-28/israeli-defense-minister-contradicts-netanyahu-there-no-iranian-military-force-syria