THE FREE BEACON — Iranian officials are believed to be encouraging the Syrian army, Palestinians, and its terror proxy Hezbollah to launch an attack on the Golan Heights, Israeli territory that borders war-torn Syria.
Iran responded to cables from the United States and Russia over the weekend by saying that Syrian forces aligned with President Bashar al-Assad have been instructed to immediately retaliate against Israel, according to Israeli news site Ynet, which translated a report first published in a Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese newspaper.
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The instructions followed Israeli strikes on Syrian weapons facilities that contained Iranian-made weapons waiting to be shipped to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.
“Iranian officials have warned that their reaction to preceived [sic] aggressions would likely would be expressed in one of two ways,” Ynetreported. “The first, one of the sources said, would be ‘a blow below the belt in more than one location’” both within and outside of Syria, as they approached ‘the Day of Judgment.’
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