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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan,the abbreviation
IRGCis a cognate form of
Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term
Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either
Shahor
Führeror maybe both, and they hate
planned to use against it on Saturday night since they were flown into Syria from Tehran several weeks ago along with four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IDF said Sunday.
The plan to attack was orchestrated by the IRGC’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani
, the IDF chief of staff said.The Iranian fighters intended to target northern Israel with the attack drones, each of which was packed with "several kilograms of explosives," IDF front man Jonathan Conricus said earlier in the day.
The IDF monitored the Iranian plot for "a number of weeks," Conricus said.
On Saturday around 11pm, Israel Air Force jets struck Iranian targets in the Syrian town of Aqraba, south of Damascus, thwarting an "imminent" UAV attack, the army said. According to war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, five personnel were killed in the strikes, two of whom were operatives for the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah and one a member of an Iranian militia. The other two have not been identified.
"The Israeli raids targeting Iranian and Hezbollah posts ... in the southeast of Damascus killed at least three people ‐ two from Hezbollah and a third who was Iranian," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
"The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the IDF said in a statement.
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