Moscow and Tehran link up to Strike Israeli Targets in Response for US-led Operation in Syria.....
April 12 2018
April 12 2018
Tehran’s resolve to make Israel pay for its airborne missile attack on the T-4 air base was conveyed on April 11 by outing the 7 Revolution Guardsmen killed in the attack.
Iran has never, in all seven years of its intervention in the Syria war, released its military casualties.
But on Wednesday, April 11, for the first time, the Iranian Guards mouthpiece, the Tasnim News Agency, ran the names and photos of the seven members of its aerospace unit, who died in the airborne missile strike on the Iranian compound of the big T-4 bases it shares with the Russian and Syrian air forces.
The agency also ran pictures of heavily damaged equipment. [pictured below]
By coming clean about its painful setback, the Tehran regime implicitly assured the public that it was not in vain and it was committed to a reckoning with the enemy for the deaths and damage on display.
The supreme leader’s senior adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati, said so bluntly when he arrived in Damascus on Tuesday: “Israel’s air strike on the Syrian air base will not go unanswered,” he said. [See Israel Report 11 April 2018]
As he spoke, Tehran gained support from its ally in Moscow with the visit of Alexander Lavrentiev, the special Russian emissary on Syria.
In a long meeting with Iran’s national security adviser Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the Russian said Iran’s decision for a military response to the T-4 attack was understandable.
He then proposed combining Iran’s action against Israel with Russia’s plans for countering the forthcoming US-British-France operation in Syria.
The Iranian and Russian officials were of one mind that Israel’s T-4 strike was the opening shot for that operation, and the next round of attackswould target Iranian and possibly also Russian targets in Syria.
On this point, they cited President Donald Trump who said on Monday, April 9, in response to the chemical attack in Douma: “We can’t allow atrocities like that… If it’s the Russians, if it’s Syria, if it’s Iran, if it’s all of them together, we’ll figure it out.”
The Russian veto Tuesday night on the US motion at the UN Security Council for an investigation into the Douma attack sent this message to Washington: Moscow has completed its preparations for countering a US-led strike in Syria.
It also nixed a scenario advanced by some sources in Washington: They maintained that delaying the US operation for final consultations with London and Paris, would be beneficial, since it would give the Russians time to evacuate the bases they shared with Iran and whisk their troops out of harm’s way.
Those sources misread Moscow’s intent.
The Russian ambassador to Beirut put them straight on this when he saidon Wednesday. “If there is a strike by the Americans then … the missiles will be downed and even their launch sites would be targeted.”
Equally out of sync was the theory put about in the last 24 hours by some sources in Jerusalem, that Israel has no part to play in the US-British-French punitive operation against the Assad regime in Syria, since its only interest lies in preventing Iran from establishing a military presence in that country.
That theory is no longer relevant, because whatever Israel does now, it is not off the hook.
For Moscow, Tehran and Damascus, Israel is an integral part of the US-led alliance and is seen to have fired the first shot for the main operation against Syria.
Therefore, while Israel geared up initially for a limited Iranian strike from its northern border, it is now feared that a military location deep inside the country may be targeted.
During Wednesday, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu conducted back-to-back consultations with his top security advisers:
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gady Eisenklot, Air Force Commander, Major General Amikam Nurkin, Military Intelligence Director Major General Tamir Heiman and head of the National Security Council Meir Ben-Shabbat.
Looks like we are all set to go to war?
Trump Tells Putin To ‘Get Ready’ for American ‘Smart Missiles’ To Fall On Syria, Russia ‘We’ll Shoot them Down’……
12 April 2018
12 April 2018
Donald Trump has told Russia to "get ready" for American "smart" missiles heading to Syria - after Moscow insisted it would shoot down US rockets…….
The closer we get to the 70th anniversary of regathered Israel, the crazier and more baffling the global situation is becoming.
To be sure, all this action could suddenly stop at any moment, [it has come to the brink of war many times recently only to recede at the very last possible moment] -but for the time being it shows no signs of stopping this time.
As we approach May 14th, America has declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, will officially open the US Embassy in Jerusalem on Israel's 70th anniversary, and the entire Middle East is shaking right now over Syria.
The US President issued the extraordinary threat on Twitter following comments from senior Russian officials that Vladimir Putin's military would strike US bomb sites in retaliation to American aggression.
Trump tweeted;
Trump tweeted;
Trump then added:
Responding to Trump's tweet, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said: “Smart missiles should fly towards terrorists, not a legal government." The spokeswoman also reportedly said that US “smart missiles” could be an attempt to destroy evidence of an alleged chemical attack on the ground.
A Syrian government called Trump's threats to attack "reckless" saying that they endangered international peace and security.
Alexander Zasypkin, [pictured below] Russia's ambassador to Lebanon, said Putin would destroy American missiles if Washington carried out a retaliatory strike.
“If there is a strike by the Americans then... the missiles will be downed andeven the sources from which the missiles were fired,” he told Hezbollah’sal-Manar TV.
Yevgeny Serebrennikov, [pictured below] deputy chairman of Moscow’s Defence Committee, also said Russia would respond “immediately” to a US attack on Russia’s soldiers in Syria.
Speaking with news outlet Sputnik, he said: “As the Defence Ministry has already pointed out, the Russian military bases in Hmeymim and Tartus are under firm protection”.
“At the same time, we expect that in the event of US strikes, if any, the lives of our servicemen will not be in danger”.
“I think that the United States understands this and will not allow it, because otherwise, Russia's response will be immediate, as the chief of the Russian General Staff has said.”
A Russian Foreign ministry source says the risk of “direct military confrontation” between Russia and the US in Syria “exists”, reports Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Meanwhile, RAF bombers were last night on standby to strike Bashar Al-Assad.
Major activity was reported at Britain’s Tornado base in Cyprus [pictured above] shortly before civilian planes were said to have been ordered to clear the airspace over Syria by the U.S.
It came as Britain told the UN that responsibility for the "diabolical" chemical attack lay with "Syria and its backers in Russia and Iran," and attacked Russia's attempts to portray itself as the victim.
In the early hours of Tuesday, a heavy flight of US-led coalition warplanes were reportedly seen flying over the Iraqi border.
Developing hourly…..
Chinese Naval Vessel en Route to Syria?………...
12 April 2018
12 April 2018
It is being reported that a Chinese military ship has been located several"hours" away from the Syrian coast.
The report quoted a defence official from West Asia as saying that the ship is awaiting a formal request for Chinese military advisers from the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A Syrian government source apparently confirmed knowledge of the Chinese vessel, but Damascus was yet to take a call for Chinese assistance.
The reported Chinese naval movement comes after the U.S. accused Russia of dispatching heavy weaponry including tanks, combat aircraft, a naval unit, and other military equipment to bolster the Syrian army.
The U.S., Russia, Turkey, Iran, United Kingdom, Israel and possibly the Chinese are now converging with war on their minds upon the Biblical flashpoint of Syria!
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