The number of Israeli attacks targeting Iran and its militias in Syria is difficult to count. There may be a strike between the time of writing and the day this article is published; beyond a doubt, however, that Israel is continuing and escalating its attacks, and there is no indication that it will stop soon. If anything, it seems it may go further.
I don’t believe that any other country in the world is being targeted the way that Israel is violating Syria’s territory- so clearly and amid radio silence suggesting that the international community welcomes these attacks.
Israel has been insisting that it is not concerned with the deal. Whether or not an agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear program is reached, Israel will continue to strike the head of the Iranian octopus and its tentacles in the region.
Israel has been doing this since what was falsely dubbed the Arab Spring. While the Syrian revolution is the most righteous and credible of those that broke in 2011, Israel is now escalating its attacks, targeting Iranian officials and ammunition depots, besides continuing to target Hezbollah leaders there and arms caches belonging to the party.
The escalation in these attacks does not embarrass the regime in Damascus alone, especially since the foreign ministry of the Assad regime has been calling on the Security Council to put an end to these attacks, a far-fetched prospect given that the Security Council did not protect the Syrian people from Assad’s crimes in the first place.
It is thus not only the Assad regime that finds itself in an awkward position but Iran itself as well. Indeed, it has been dealt painful Israeli blows targeting Tehran itself, from assassinating IRGC officials to conducting taped interrogations with them inside Iran.
Despite the party’s stale media and that of the Assad regime before it, both of which are trying to paint a misleading picture of fantasized victories, just as the nationalist and leftist Arab media used to promote the idea that “there can be no war without Syria,” which of courses has had its territorial integrity desecrated. Because of the embarrassing position the Assad regime, Iran, and Hezbollah are not in, their media outlets have been attacking Russia, blaming it for being lenient with Israel instead of raising skepticism about the lies on “resistance” that Iran’s aides have been echoing for decades.
On Friday, for instance, our newspaper quoted an anonymous source associated with the Assad regime as saying that the Russians had advised the Iranians to withdraw from their military base “to avoid Israeli air strikes and safeguard stability in western Syria.”
According to the same source, three Russian officers told their Iranian counterparts on Wednesday, at the Hama Military Airport, that they should not give the Israelis an excuse or pretext to keep launching airstrikes by maintaining a presence in this important area of Syria.
This leak makes it obvious that the Assad regime wants to imply that Russia is not fully committed to protecting it and is facilitating Israeli attacks on the country. The truth is that Russia itself is now embroiled in an open-ended battle not with the Ukrainians but with the West as a whole. It is only natural that it re-evaluate its positions and interests, even in Syria, from which Moscow is said to have withdrawn its S-300 missiles...
For these reasons, it seems that the Assad regime, Iran, and its groups in the region, particularly Hezbollah, are now extremely concerned with the awkward, embarrassing position Israel has put them in. All of this also means that the Israelis have no red lines in Syria, and each of its attacks serves as a reminder that their “resistance” is nothing but a lie.
