Israeli forces retaliated against Iranians striking from Syria last week, further escalating tensions in the region. The counterstrike was launched after Iran fired rockets into southern Israel.
A Syrian defector told reporters that Israel's rockets landed in Dumair, just northeast of Damascus, an area dominated by Iranian-backed militias.
"We want to prevent Iran turning Syria into an Iranian base close to Israel that may bring a drastic strategic change in the situation. ... That's why we keep pounding Iranian bases, so they don't take control of the country," said Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, the former director general of Israeli's strategic affairs ministry. Kuperwasser also previously served as the head of Israeli military intelligence research.
Last week, Iranian diplomats claimed their presence in Syria is simply a humanitarian venture, helping to rebuild Syria's war-torn land.
But those claims were readily disproven just days later by the Iranian missiles fired from Syria into southern Israel, with one landing dangerously close to Israel's Negev nuclear reactor.
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Contrary to their recent pronouncements, it has long been known that Iran's "military advisors" are in Syria for the express purpose of resisting U.S. and Israeli power in the Middle East.
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Biden has filled his cabinet with anti-Israel activists and has repeatedly snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Even Saudi Arabia is astonished at Biden's apparent eagerness to appease Iran.
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