Israel has repeatedly carried out air strikes on Syrian territory, allegedly targeting military facilities of Iran and “Hezbollah”, which, in his opinion plan to use Syria as a platform to launch attacks against Israeli cities. Tehran still militarily respond to the attack of Israel, but the war of words escalates between them.
The representative of Iran’s Supreme leader to the Quds – in a special unit of the Iranian revolutionary guards corps (IRGC) warned on Thursday that “Iran can destroy Israel.”
Cleric Ali Shirazi also called on Israel to avoid “stupid mistakes, if he wants to continue his treacherous existence.”
“If Israel wants to continue his evil existence… he needs to avoid stupid actions. If they give excuses to Iran, tel Aviv and Haifa [two major cities in Israel] will be destroyed. Iran can destroy Israel”, – said the representative of Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Quds, a cleric Ali Shirazi, told the Fars Agency on April 11.
Regional opponents have repeatedly accused each other of sponsoring terrorists and destabilisateur the situation in the region.
Two Israeli warplanes F-16 aimed on the T-4 airbase in the Syrian province of HOMS in the beginning of this month, according to the Ministry of defense of Russia.
About half of the missiles fired by warplanes were intercepted by Syrian air defenses before they reached their goal, but the remaining missiles killed seven Iranian soldiers, sparking condemnation from Tehran and Damascus.
Iran is one of the few remaining countries that refuse to recognize the state of Israel, and was accused of trying to develop nuclear weapons to threaten and potentially attack Israel.
The President of the United States Donald trump is one of the main critics of Iran nuclear deal that weakened economic sanctions against the country in exchange for Tehran agreed to limit its controversial program of uranium enrichment, in which he argues that peaceful energy purposes.
The Islamic Republic has also been criticized for providing advanced weapons to a resistance group Hizbollah in Lebanon, which Israel and several Western countries consider a terrorist organization.
Hezbollah troops and advisers from the IRGC were sent to Syria in the infant years of the conflict to fight an uncompromising Islamist militants, including * Islamic state terrorist group, but Israel is now accusing them of creating permanent military bases in the country, which can be used to attack Israel.
*Daish (also known as ISIS/ISIL/ Islamic state) is a terrorist group banned in Russia.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
