December 26-2014
A senior Iranian official says the recent Israeli airstrikes on Syria were conducted in support of foreign-backed terrorists operating against the Syrian government.
Israeli warplanes carried out two air raids against an area of the Damascus International Airport and another airport in the town of Dimas on December 7.
It is almost universally agreed that the Israelis were attacking a cache of Iranian missiles that had been flown to Damascus and were about to be trucked into Lebanon for Hezbollah to warehouse until its next battle with Israel. The Israeli Air Force has made at least two other such attacks on missile caches in Syria believed bound for Hezbollah.
But Iran does not accept that explanation.
“The recent intrusions by the [aircraft of] the Zionist regime into Syria’s airspace were an act against the national sovereignty and security of this country,” said the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, in a meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi in Tehran last Tuesday.
The attack was carried out to “support terrorists, and the United Nations Security Council and other countries must firmly respond to the aggression to prevent its recurrence,” he said.