Reuters: Iran Used Earthquake Relief Flights to Deliver Advanced Weapon Systems to Syria
“After the Feb. 6 earthquake … hundreds of flights from Iran began landing in Syria’s Aleppo, Damascus and Latakia airports.”
While President Joe Biden’s administration revives the idea of a “new” nuclear deal with Iran, the country’s Shia-Islamic regime is again using the Middle East’s misery to spread death and terror.
Under the guise of providing humanitarian aid to quake-hit Syria, Iran flew in advanced weapons systems to Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Iran misused “earthquake relief flights to bring weapons and military equipment into its strategic ally Syria,” an exclusive report published by the Reuters news agency disclosed
The revelation of fresh weapons delivery comes as pro-Iranian terrorist groups regularly attack the U.S. troops in Syria. Earlier this month, Iran-backed terror militias, often directed and armed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), used Syrian territory to attack U.S. military bases and launch attacks into northern Israel.
Reuters reported Wednesday:
Iran has used earthquake relief flights to bring weapons and military equipment into its strategic ally Syria, nine Syrian, Iranian, Israeli and Western sources said.
The sources told Reuters that the goal was to buttress Iran’s defences against Israel in Syria and to strengthen Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Reuters is the first to report this development.
After the Feb. 6 earthquake in northern Syria and Turkey, hundreds of flights from Iran began landing in Syria’s Aleppo, Damascus and Latakia airports bringing supplies, and this went on for seven weeks, the sources said. More than 6,000 people died in all of Syria, according to the United Nations.
Reuters spoke to Western intelligence officials, sources close to the Iranian and Israeli leadership as well as a Syrian military defector and a serving Syrian officer about the flights for this article.
The supplies included advanced communications equipment and radar batteries and spare parts required for a planned upgrade of Syria’s Iran-provided air defence system in its civil war, said the sources, two regional sources and a Western intelligence source said.
Regional sources told Reuters that Israel quickly became aware of the flow of weapons into Syria and mounted an aggressive campaign to counter it.
Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, an insider and former head of research in the Israel army as well as ex-general director of the Ministry of Strategic Affair said Israeli air strikes against the shipments relied on intelligence so specific that Israel’s military knew which truck in a long convoy to target.
As President Biden pushes for a new Iran deal — in a desperate bid to stop the Mullah regime from going nuclear, pro-Iranian terrorist outfits conducted coordinated attacks on U.S. troops stationed in Syria. On March 24, Iran-backed militia conducted a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. servicemen in Syria, killing one civilian contractor and wounding six U.S. soldiers.
Since President Biden took office, Iran-backed terrorists have repeatedly attacked U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East. “According to officials, Iran has launched 80 attacks against U.S. forces and locations in Iraq and Syria since January 2021. The vast majority of those have been in Syria,” the Associated Press reported on March 25.
While President Biden appeases Iran by easing Trump-era sanctions and offering sweetened nuclear deals, Israel is hitting Iran’s weapons depots and supply hubs in Syria.
New Iran-sponsored ‘Axis’ of Terror
Meanwhile, the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror militia is strengthening ties with Gaza-based jihadist group Hamas. Last week, Hamas-linked terrorist outfits fired dozens of rockets from Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
Both Hezbollah and Hamas receive funding, weapons, and training from Iran.
The Times of Israel reported the recent meeting between Hezbollah and Hamas terror chiefs (April 9, 2023):
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah met with a delegation led by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Beirut on Sunday to discuss cooperation, amid spiking violence in Israel from rocket barrages and terror attacks. (…)
Nasrallah and Haniyeh discussed “the readiness of the axis of resistance” — a reference to Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and other Iran-backed terror groups opposed to Israel.
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Why wouldn’t they, who was going to stop them?
Duh.
You stole the word out of my mouth.
A Slavic…. Persian Spring, a second Iraq war, funded in whole by the Ignoble Pieces laundered transfer and his elderly protege let’s do it, just do it, again.
What better for victims of earthquakes than some fresh weapons. So nutritious.
Tell me again why that wag the dog warmonger Trump committed US troops to a hot war in Syria?
Oh, wait…