Likud Minister Steinitz says Israel will make it clear to US, Russia and other world powers that Iranian forces must not be allowed to mass on Israel’s border.

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Israel is concerned with the build-up of Iranian forces in Syria, near the border with Israel, National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) said in an interview with Army Radio on Tuesday.

Steinitz’s comments came amid the recent addition of Russian troops to Syria to bolster President Bashar Assad in his fight against Islamic State and other rebel groups challenging his rule in Syria. However, the Likud minister was more concerned with the infusion of troops from Assad’s other central backer, Iran.

“Nobody wants to see Russian forces in the area of the Golan Heights, but we definitely don’t want to see Iranian forces near Israel,” Steinitz told Army Radio.

Steinitz, speaking as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was en route to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, said that Israel would clarify Israel’s concerns regarding Iranian forces in Syria in discussions with the relevant parties.

“In all of our discussions, first and foremost with the United States, but also with Russia and the rest of the world powers, we must make sure that the Iranian forces will stay in Iran,” Steinitz said.

A senior Israeli security source said earlier this month that an Iranian Islamic Republican Guards Corp force, comprised of hundreds of soldiers, recently entered Syria to assist the embattled Assad regime.

Tehran dispatched its force “in light of Assad’s” ongoing distress, the source stated, adding that the deployment is part of a wider Russian-Iranian coordinated effort to prevent what remains of the Assad regime from collapsing.

According to Israeli assessments, the Assad regime currently controls 25 to 30 percent of Syria, consisting of Damascus and the Syrian coastline, where the regime’s minority Alawite support base is centered.

The source described a meeting last month between Quds Force commander Qassam Suleimani and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as an event preceding the Russian- Iranian military initiative to rescue Assad.

0 thoughts on “‘Israel concerned with build-up of Iranian forces in Syria near Golan border’”
  1. Syria is a sovereign country–and is continuously being attacked by Israel under the pretext of “stopping Hezbollah,” another organization Israel created when it decided to invade Lebanon. Not only does Israel assassinate civilians inside Iran, the Golan is a part of Syria that Israel is occupying illegally, and its “annexation” is recognized by NO ONE. But, you know, Israel is going to tell the world that no Iranians can be on “its border” (again, illegally occupied Golan). I mean, really. One of these days, I hope to live to see not the decimation but the complete destruction, the bombing of “Israel” into a lunar landscape.

  2. “Golan border?!?” Actually, whatever troops are there are well within Syrian territory and abutting the other Syrian territory occupied by IsraHell. ALL the Golan is Syrian land and just as all IsraHell is Palestinian land.

  3. Could it be that Iranians re sending a message to the Lizardvolk… GTFO of every square inch of territory .you beasts have stolen from the Palesinians since 1947! Start asking around, see if there’s any country on the %$#$%& planet who will take you in because your stinking presence is unwanted anywhere on the Levant, not even buried there!

  4. No Iranians on ISRAEL BORDER????. The Golan Hights are not Israel. They are Syrian territory. Israel scared???. Of course they should be scared. They are used to fight weak countries and some with no armies at all and they feel brave and powerful. This time is different. Iran, Hezbollah the Syrian military and Russia are serious, they are not going to allow more BS in the region.

  5. I some doubts that a Russian is going to have any reluctance to blow an Israeli fighter out of the sky or target an Israeli artillary or rocket battery firing into Syrian territory. I think Netanyahu is engaging in whistling as he’s walking by the cemetary as the brown stuff runs down his leg. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part.

  6. “The are just looking for an excuse to attack and steal more territory.”

    You’re right, whiskeypapa.
    And for this purpose the State of Israel HAVE NOT DEFINED borders!
    Is the Jewnited Nations Organization blind, deaf and mute since 1948?

  7. Jacek, The Zionists have defined their borders, From the Nile to the Euphrates, the big laugh is on the Saudis who support the Zionists, Greater Israel takes in much of their territory.

  8. Israel is not even a State. It has been recognized only by two stooges UK/US. The UN has never recognized Israel as a state, and it is the only country in the world who does not have define boundaries, no CONSTITUTION, no common language, and her citizens have been born thousands of miles away. Israel is “The only DEMOCRACY” in the Middle East but just for the Jews.

  9. @ 10, Whiskeypapa:

    Are you the typical Goyim victim of the “jews”/Khazars treachery?

    Christian Goyim, after 2,000 years of brain washing by small “caiphases” are not able to comprehend that the 10 Commandments are only for the Jews/”jews”/Khazars – because for them only Jews/”jews”/Khazars are the NEIGHBORS, Goyim are animals, so they can be killed, robbed, exploited, etc. by the Jews/”jews”/Khazars as they like.
    Shortly: the Jews/”jews”/Khazars don’t kill , rob, steal, use usury, corrupt,etc. only the NEIGHBORS,
    Christian Goyim see as the NEIGHBORS Jews/”jews”/Khazars and the Goyim –
    this is the base for enslaving Christians – for this purpose the Jews organized the “Christianity”…

    “From Nile to Euphrates” -> Eretz Yisroel -> GOYIM VERSION! (the shortest distance between those rivers)
    The true meaning of “from Nile to Eufrates” for the Jews/”jews”/Khazars is the longest distance, ie. around the Globe!

    At every Sunday Mass Christians can hear from their priests/”small caiphases” that Jews
    are the CHOSEN by “Lord God”, which gave them the Earth.

    Attention: do you see the difference between entities: YHWH and Lord God?
    For me YHWH is blood thirsty revengeful genocidal monster,
    absolutely not matching Jesus Christ teachings,
    so Jews invented for Christians the Lord God: loving everybody and forgiving everything, etc.

    And the Goyim swallowed the hook, the sinker and the line…

    Dear Whiskeypapa, don’t be upset by mine: “typical Goyim victim” – just adjust your horizon, please…

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