- Iran Denies Attacking Israeli Positions
by http://www.dw.com, 11 May 2018
Iran has denied involvement in rocket attacks on the Golan Heights that led to Israeli strikes on Iranian sites in Syria. The UN has called for an end to “hostile acts” amid fears of further escalation.
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Iran on Friday rejected accusations by Israel that it had fired rockets at Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, describing them as “freely invented and baseless” charges designed to justify Israel’s own attacks on Syria.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi also criticized the international community for not condemning Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Thursday which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a retaliation against Iran’s aggression.
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Its silence “only gives the Zionist regime (Israel) the green light for further aggressions that serve only to make the region more insecure and unstable,” he said. The defense committee of Iran’s parliament also said Iranian forces had nothing to do with the attacks on Israeli positions.
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“This is another lie from the Zionist regime for propaganda purposes,” said committee spokesman Mohammad Nobandegani. Nobandegani also denied that Iran had any military forces in Syria at all.
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Dangerous development
Israel announced early on Thursday that its forces had hit “almost all” Iranian infrastructure sites in Syria during airstrikes carried out in retaliation for Iran’s firing of 20 rockets into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Netanyahu said that Iran had “crossed a red line” with the rocket attacks.
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The attacks were some of the worst direct violence between arch rivals Israel and Iran in years and have raised fears of a wider conflict in the region. Israel has long expressed concern that Iran could establish a military presence in Syria amid the instability caused by Syria’s long-running civil war.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres echoed fears of further escalation in a tweet in which he called for an end to “all hostile acts and any provocative actions.”
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