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| Tel Aviv will assassinate Syria’s Assad if Iran attacks Israel: Israeli minister |
| 2018-05-08 |
| [PRESSTV] An Israeli minister says Tel Aviv could topple the government of Syrian President of Bashir al-Assad in response to any attack by Iran against the occupying regime, hinting that the Syrian leader himself might be targeted for liquidation. "If Assad allows Iran to turn Syria into a military vanguard against us, to attack us from Syrian territory, he should know that would be the end of him, the end of his regime," said Yuval Steinitz, the minister of national infrastructure, energy and water resources, in an interview with the Hebrew news portal, Ynet, on Monday. When asked whether his remarks meant the regime might assassinate President Assad, Steinitz, who is also a member of Israel’s ministerial committee on national security affairs, uttered that "his blood would be forfeit." The Israeli minister, however, appeared to suggest that his comments did not represent Tel Aviv’s policy, adding, "I’m not talking about any concrete proposal." A text story of Steinitz’s interview with Ynet had quoted him as explicitly saying that the Israeli regime would murder Assad, but this was not borne out by a video clip of the interview. Iran, Syria’s strong ally, has been giving Damascus military advisory assistance in its countrywide counter-terrorism battles since a foreign-sponsored militancy unleashed in the Arab country in 2011. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Actions have consequences. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-05-08 02:32 |