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May 9 2013

PUTIN – RUSSIA WON’T TOLERATE ANOTHER ATTACK ON SYRIA

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FARSNews

Russia Not to Tolerate Further Israeli Attacks on Damascus

TEHRAN (FNA)- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond.

Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the acceleration of highly advanced Russian weapons supplies to Syria.

Israeli Debkafile’s military sources disclosed that the Russian leader was referring to S-300 anti-air systems and the nuclear-capable 9K720 Iskander (NATO named SS-26 Stone) surface missiles, which are precise enough to hit a target within a 5-7 meter radius at a distance of 280 kilometers.

In his phone call to Netanyahu, the Russian leader advised the prime minister to make sure to keep this in mind.

Since Syrian air defense teams have already trained in Russia on the handling of the S-300 interceptor batteries, they can go into service as soon as they are landed by one of Russia’s daily airlifts to Syria. Russian air defense officials will supervise their deployment and prepare them for operation.

Moscow is retaliating not just for Israel’s air operations against Syria but in anticipation of the Obama administration’s impending decision to send the first US arms shipments to the Syrian rebels.

Intelligence agencies in Moscow and the Middle-East take it for granted that by the time Washington goes public on this decision, some of the Syrian rebel factions will already be armed with American weapons.

That the measure was in the works was signified by the introduction Monday by chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez of legislation allowing the US to provide arms and military training to the Syrian rebels.

US military instructors have been working with Syrian rebels at training camps in Jordan and Turkey for some months. So putting the arms in their hands only awaited a decision in Washington, the Israeli website alleged.

Putin’s message to Netanyahu was intended to reach a wider audience than Jerusalem, such as Barack Obama in Washington and President Xi Jinping in Beijing ahead of Netanyahu’s talks there Tuesday.

May 9 2013

Syria’s army now controlling most parts of country: Iranian foreign minister

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi

PressTV

Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the situation in Syria is ‘very good,’ as the Syrian army now has control over most parts of the Arab country.

“We are hopeful about the future of Syria. Of course, this does not mean that everything will soon be over, [but] the Syrian army has resisted pretty well so far,” said the top Iranian diplomat in Tehran on Wednesday following his trip to Syria and Jordan.

“The region is currently witnessing momentous developments. Therefore, Iran must be in constant contact with the regional countries in order to prevent any incident the inevitable consequences of which could engulf the entire region,” Salehi added.

The Iranian foreign minister arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Tuesday, and held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to discuss the latest developments in the crisis-hit country.

Earlier in the day, Salehi met with top Jordanian officials including his Jordanian counterpart, Yasser Judeh, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour and King Abdullah II.

Referring to his meeting with Assad, Salehi said the latest regional developments were discussed in the meeting where “good decisions” were also made.

“More important than anything else is the people’s support for the Syrian army and government… they have realized that the mercenaries massacring the people inside Syria do not want anyone’s good,” Salehi said.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of security personnel, have been killed by foreign-backed militants, which Damascus says are trained and supported by the Western powers and their allies in the region.

Several international human rights organizations have accused foreign-sponsored militants of committing war crimes.

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May 8 2013

Syrian army regains control of strategic town in south

Syrian soldiers shout slogans in support of President Bashar al-Assad near the town of Jisr al-Shughour. (File photo)

 

The Syrian Army has regained control of a strategic town in southern Syria following heavy clashes with foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria.

Reports say the Syrian forces have released the town of Khirbet Ghazaleh on Wednesday from the militants after about two months of clashes. The town is situated near the Jordanian border.

According to the opposition sources, some 1,000 militants withdrew from the town after they lost hope that aids would come from Jordan.

The sources also said that the Syrian Army’s success in the area has raised resentment among militants over what they consider as lack of support from Jordan in their fight against the Syrian government forces.

On May 4, the Syrian troops drove out militants from towns of Aziza and Tall Assan, located near the northwestern city of Aleppo.

The army also discovered tunnels dug by the militants in Aziza, and secured a strategic bridge that linked several towns in the Aleppo countryside.

Earlier in the day, the Syrian forces regained control over two key areas in Ghouta, near the capital Damascus, where a large number of militants were killed in the operations.

The Syria crisis began in March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of soldiers and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.

Source: Press TV

May 7 2013

US-led Zio-Wahhabis wage war on Syria

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PressTV

This morning, the government of Israel contacted President Assad of Syria. They did so as the leader of a coalition now openly at war against Syria and Iran, with plans to broaden the conflict.

Assad was told he would be allowed to continue his rule, but on the “Jordanian model,” as a puppet of Israel and Turkey.

Israeli armor is now inside Syria, not just the occupied zone, but has closed the distance to Damascus and has that city under artillery fire.

The claimed air attacks are a ruse; Israel has been using 155 and 175 mm artillery, mobile howitzers of extreme range, enhanced by arms expert Gerald Bull, who was assassinated by Israeli agents in 1990 as his reward.

The artillery attacks on Syria, using time delay and cluster munitions, are in direct support of military actions with fire control and communications being supplied by Israeli UAV aircraft operating in Syrian air space in support of Al Qaeda led rebel group.

These terrorist groups, aided by extremists from Libya and the Persian Gulf States are being trained and supplied in Jordan and Turkey. It is hard to ignore the fact that US troops, on a secret mission to verify Israeli claims of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government, are fully complicit in aiding Al-Qaeda operations against the Syrian government.

As for chemical weapon use, a report from United Nations human rights investigators, according to Reuters, has verified that it is rebels who have been using these weapons, in particular, deadly Sarin Gas.

Former Swiss attorney general, Carla Del Ponte, representing the United Nations independent commission of inquiry, based in Geneva, is quoted in a televised interview:

“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of Sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated. This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities.”

RED LINE

Last week, President Obama declared that use of chemical weapons by the Assad government would represent a “red line” for the United States, justifying military action against Syria. However, despite numerous unsubstantiated news reports, the first “actionable” reports of that mythic line being crossed place Israel, Turkey and even the United States on the wrong side, aligned with Al Qaeda in the use of deadly nerve agents against Syria.

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May 5 2013

Report: Israel Using Depleted Uranium in Missile Attacks on Damascus

TEHRAN (FNA)- Sources disclosed on Sunday that Israel has used depleted uranium in its recent missile attacks on a suburban Damascus area.

The first missile which hit Jamraya near al-Haviyeh in Reef (outskirts of) Damascus contained uranium substances, a correspondent of the Russian TV quoted some local sources as saying.

Other media outlets had also earlier released similar reports on Israel’s use of radioactive materials in attacks on Syria.

Explosions shook Damascus early on Sunday and Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military research center on the outskirts of the capital.

The blasts occurred a day after an Israeli official said Tel Aviv had carried out an air strike targeting a consignment of missiles in Syria. The research center hit on Sunday was also targeted by Israel in January.

“The new Israeli attack is an attempt to raise the morale of the terrorist groups which have been reeling from strikes by our noble army,” Syrian television said, referring to recent offensives by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against rebels.

There was no immediate comment from Israeli officials on Sunday’s explosions.

Late in January, the Syrian Army said in a statement that two people were killed and five others injured in an Israeli air strike on a scientific center in Jamraya, 25 kilometers (15 miles) Northwest of the capital Damascus.

May 5 2013

Damas annonce le nom de deux pilotes israéliens capturés !

IRIB- le site Dampress rend public les noms de deux pilotes de l’appareil israélien qui a participé au raid contre la banlieue de Daams .

Les sources sionistes ont reconnu avoir perdu contact avec Shamoel Azar et Esson Gary alors qu’ils survolait la Syrie . ” Nous n’avons aucune information sur le sort de ces deux pilotes” ajoutent les ources syriennes.
May 5 2013

Raid en Syrie: l’armée israélienne déploie deux batteries “Dôme d’acier”

«L’armée de l’air israélienne a déployé deux batteries Dôme d’acier dans les villes de Haïfa et de Safad», révèle dimanche la chaine télévisée Russia Today.

Le bouclier antimissile israélien, «Dôme d’acier», est censé intercepter des missiles et des roquettes de moyenne portée (de 70 à 250 km).

Mars dernier, un professeur sioniste avait averti que la capacité du «Dôme d’acier» est limitée. «Il est prématuré de louer les avantages du système de défense anti-missiles le dôme d’acier, parce qu’il n’a aucunement renforcé la force de dissuasion israélienne», avait déclaré le professeur Avi Cooper dans une nouvelle étude publiée par l’institut d’études «Begin-Sadate».

Craintes de la réplique syrienne

La décision de déployer ces deux batteries est prise «par craintes de la réplique de la Syrie» au raid israélien mené la nuit de samedi à dimanche contre un centre de recherches près de Damas, précise Russia Today.

Quelques heures après le feu vert donné par le président américain à l’entité sioniste pour attaquer la Syria, l’aviation israélienne a bombardé le centre de recherches sur l’amélioration de la résistance et l’autodéfense dans la région de Jamraya, situé au nord de la capitale syrienne.

Un officiel israélien a confirmé dimanche le raid en Syrie, prétendant que «l’attaque ciblait des armes en provenance de l’Iran».

Selon diverses sources sécuritaires et médiatiques, les forces de défense aérienne de l’armée syrienne ont pu frapper l’un des drones israéliens lors de raid précité.

Fin janvier, «Israël» avait déjà revendiqué à demi-mot la responsabilité d’une opération aérienne, prétendant qu’elle a visé «des installations militaires en Syrie». Cependant, Damas avait souligné que «le raid aérien israélien a visé un centre de recherche scientifique situé dans la banlieue de Jamraya, au nord-ouest de Damas». L’attaque avait été menée en coopération avec les rebelles armés qui avaient pris le centre pour cible à maintes reprises , sans le réussir à le détruire.

Source: Divers, traduit par: moqawama.org

May 5 2013

About the israeli attack on Damascus

Collection of tweets regarding the illegal attack carried out by israel on Damascus:

- Syria making israel & the West crazy by spreading true & wrong info. 300 deads, 150 deads…

- Don’t trust a minute that strategic weapons were destroyed by israeli attack. Syria knows zionists too well to have let it happen.

- Of course there are traitors in the Syrian army that sell info to israel. But there are also lots of “fake traitors” selling wrong info.

- Syria always delivered weapons to Hezbollah & Palestine at highest moments of war & israel couldn’t prevent it. israel is weak. So don’t trust a minute that israel could have destroyed strategic weapons and missiles.

You will know when Syria & Hezbollah decide to strike back when you hear israel has vanished from the map.

- Syria‘s retaliation must be carried out at the best moment to make sure to cause major chaos to the zionists. Syria will act in cold blood.

- When israel launched its AIR attack rats on the ground tried to carry out major push inside Damascus. Operation FAILED. Syria

- Don’t think only the west & zionist entity know how to play with info & use it as psychological war weapon. Syria & Iran are great at it

- israeli attack caused major death on CHICKEN population in the farms. No strategic weapon lost. Probably nuclear chicken ?…. (See below video)

To be continued…

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