USAF Takes Control of Syrian Skies. Unidentified Air Strike on Iranian Target…..
November 23, 2018
November 23, 2018
This new game changer in Syria, provoked an exceptionally detailedthreat from Tehran: “US bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and US aircraft carriers in the Gulf are within range of our missiles,” said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ airspace division, on Wednesday, November 21.
“We can hit them if they (Americans) make a move. Our land-to-sea missiles have a range of 700 km (450 miles) … and the US aircraft carriers are our targets.” he said.
Iran’s airspace chief was responding to the abrupt change in the skies over Syria.
For the past week, the: US Air Force has kept F-22 stealth planes and F/A 18F Super Hornet fighters flying over Syria around the clock.
Genral Hajizadeh knew exactly where they were coming from – the US Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and the US Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE.
Why he slipped the Kandahar base into his list is a mystery because none of the USAF planes over Syria come from there.
The USS Harry Truman Carrier Strike Group is another matter, since some of the US fighter bombers circling over Syria come from its decks.
This five-ship strike group reached Syrian waters late last week. They also had cruise missiles aboard.
Reliable military sources report that these US overflights are taking place without interruption: as one group flies back to base, another takes its place.
Their constant presence in Syrian air space has chased all other warplanes, especially those of Russia and Syria, out of the sky.
US pilots also report that the S-300 air defence systems, which the Russians began importing to Syria in October, are not operational and are unlikely to be before January.
US pilots also report that the S-300 air defence systems, which the Russians began importing to Syria in October, are not operational and are unlikely to be before January.
This is what Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon [pictured above] was talking about on Tuesday, November 20, when he said: “Russia’s S-300 air defence systems in Syria have no impact on United States’ operations in the country.”
He also aimed a warning at Moscow: “Any additional arms sent into Syria only serves to escalate the situation at this point.”
Is this a window of opportunity?
According to an exclusive report reaching our military sources,unidentified aircraft attacked an Iranian target in Syria on Monday, November 19.
This was not a major operation and the target was small.
All the same, it was the second attack on an Iranian site in Syria since Israel discontinued its aerial attacks in the second half of September.
The first, on October 23, appears to have been carried out byunidentified missiles against the Damascus region.
After the air strike, Washington hastened to send out quiet messages that the USAF was not involved.
However, so long as the Russian S-300's are non-operational and the US Air Force provides an umbrella, Israel is offered a window of opportunity for resuming its assaults on Iran’s presence in, and arms deliveries, to Syria.
There is no knowing how long that window will stay open.
Iran: US Bases are Within Range of our Missiles.................
November 22, 2018
November 22, 2018
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday that US bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf were within range of Iranian missiles.
“They are within our reach and we can hit them if they (Americans)make a move,” Amirali Hajizadeh, [pictured above] head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ airspace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.
“Our land-to-sea missiles have a range of 700 km (450 miles) … and the U.S. aircraft carriers are our targets,” he added.
Iran/Hizballah build new militias in Syria against Northern Israel.............. November 22, 2018
Heads were scratched in many security circles on Monday, November 20, when IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General Gady Eisenkot was heard to declare that the fact that “Iran and terrorist groups were very far from the place they hoped to attain” was down to“continuous quality operations.”
The IDF would continue to foil their efforts, he said, while keeping one eye on the security situation in the north and keeping to its commitment to protect Israel’s civilians.
Speaking during a tour of the Bashan Division on the Golan, Eisenkot [pictured above] did not specify the place that Iran “hoped to attain” or the place it had reached in consequence of IDF operations.
The general typically calls on this sort of vague, bombastic rhetoric for obscuring shortcomings or blunders.
He has been caught using it to misrepresent the balance of strength in the Gaza stand-off with Hamas, although some colleagues have urged him to drop it.
The trouble with the chief of staff is that, on the one hand, he invites his officers to freely express their opinions, while, on the other, he is deaf to criticism or any opinion that conflicts with his own.
This personality defect has persuaded more and more military officers on active duty and in the reserves to determine in recent months that the IDF is not ready for the next war, especially on the northern front.
Eisenkott has clearly made up his mind that Tehran is planning to deploy a large Iranian military force in Syria on the scale of a division and-a-half which the IDf must be geared to combat.
By Tehren it infers its Mid-East war commander, the Al-Qods chief General Qassem Soleimani (whose remit also includes the Gaza Strip).
But this perception misses the facts. Contrary to Eisenkot’s evaluation, the Iranians never depart from their proxy strategy.
Soleimani [pictured above] is accordingly putting together a Syrian army of local, pro-Iranian militias for the conducting of synchronised operations on multiple fronts.
This strategy replicates the Shiite militia model which works for Tehran in Lebanon and Iraq.
There are no Iranian troops in either country, only surrogate militias, some of them stronger and better armed than the national armies of Iraq and Lebanon.
The most notorious example being Hizballah.
Although Hizballah is making good progress in planting those militias in southern Syria, Eisenkot has not ordered the IDF to thwart the project – or even strike their training camps and command centres.
Some 2,000 recruits have joined up in the Daraa region, many of them former rebels, who fought with the US and Israeli armies before the Daraa and Quneitra regions (opposite the Jordanian and Israel Golan borders) were captured by the Syrian army with Russian help in June.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards pays each a generous $250 per month, to buy their combat experience and priceless knowledge of IDF methods of operation on Israel’s northern border from years of exposure and personal acquaintance with its commanders.
Soleimani plans to deploy these militias opposite Israel’s Golan lines.
Developing......
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