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Mpango wa Iran baada ya shambulizi la Oktoba 7,2023 ni kupiga Israel kutokea pande zote kupitia vikundi vya Hamas, Hezbollah na houth.
Njia mojawapo ya mashambulizi hayo ni kupitia ardhi ya Syria na ndipo Kwa mshangao mkubwa Asad aligoma
Kumbe mahusiano yalikuwa yameshaharibika siku nyingi baina ya washirika hao wawili wakubwa yaani Iran na Syria
Aliyekuwa Kiongozi wa Syria Asad alichoka kuona ardhi ya nchi yake ikitumiwa na Iran kufanya mashambulizi dhidi ya Israel
Taarifa kamili hapo chini kwa kimombo:
Says Iran still hopes to 'form resistance cells' in Syria
Iranian general says Assad blocked Tehran’s effort to open Syrian front against Israel
Behrouz Esbati says now-ousted Syrian leader refused multiple requests to let Iran-backed militias attack from country after October 7; acknowledges regime’s fall a ‘very big blow’
By ToI Staff
Today, 2:07 pm
Iran’s former top general in Syria has revealed that Tehran pushed the since-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to open an additional front against Israel as it battled terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah over the past 15 months.
In a recording cited by the New York Times on Wednesday, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati said ties with Assad had been strained prior to the Syrian regime’s collapse at the beginning of December, over his refusal to let Iran-backed militias open a new front against Israel from Syria.
Iran had presented Assad with detailed plans to use Iranian resources in Syria to attack Israel, but despite multiple requests, he refused to let them go ahead, Esbati said.
Esbati spoke last week at a Tehran mosque, and his comments were reported in Iranian media on Monday, the NY Times said. In other remarks, Esbati acknowledged that the Islamic Republic was “defeated very badly” by the fall of Assad, despite Iranian leaders’ repeated efforts to downplay the matter.
He also was said to play down the notion of Iran again directly attacking Israel and accused Russia of shutting down radar systems in Syria during alleged Israeli attacks on Iranian resources.
The fall of the Assad regime came amid an ongoing war in the Gaza Strip that began on October 7, 2023, when the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas led thousands of terrorists to attack Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.
The next day Hezbollah began attacking along Israel’s northern border. That conflict also spiraled into an open war that ended with a fragile ceasefire at the end of November after Israel largely decimated Hezbollah’s leadership and resources.
In addition, other Iranian proxies, such as militias in Iraq and Yemen’s Houthis rebels, have also fired missiles and drones at Israel since the Gaza war started.
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Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati, a senior #Iran regime general in #Syria who has worked also in the Armed Forces General Staff, gave remarks in recent days where he said “I don’t consider losing Syria something to be proud of. We were defeated, and defeated very badly, we took a very… pic.twitter.com/wR74HA1IVE
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) January 8, 2025
Despite the ostensible refusal of Assad to sanction the opening of a Syrian front with Israel, there were several rocket attacks from Iran-backed groups in Syria at northern Israel in the past 15 months, though apparently not at the scale Iran had sought. Such attacks had also occurred from time to time before the war started.
Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets at Israel during the same period. This, along with the threat of a possible massive cross-border attack similar to Hamas’s, forced the evacuation of 60,000 northern residents of Israel and tied up military resources that were deployed to the area. Israel launched an offensive against Hezbollah in September that eventually brought about a mediated truce in November.
Days after the battered Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in late November, the Assad regime fell, marking two major strategic setbacks for Iran. Hamas, too, has been greatly diminished by the war in Gaza, with many senior figures killed, including two of its long-time leaders.
Mpango wa Iran baada ya shambulizi la Oktoba 7,2023 ni kupiga Israel kutokea pande zote kupitia vikundi vya Hamas, Hezbollah na houth.
Njia mojawapo ya mashambulizi hayo ni kupitia ardhi ya Syria na ndipo Kwa mshangao mkubwa Asad aligoma
Kumbe mahusiano yalikuwa yameshaharibika siku nyingi baina ya washirika hao wawili wakubwa yaani Iran na Syria
Aliyekuwa Kiongozi wa Syria Asad alichoka kuona ardhi ya nchi yake ikitumiwa na Iran kufanya mashambulizi dhidi ya Israel
Taarifa kamili hapo chini kwa kimombo:
Says Iran still hopes to 'form resistance cells' in Syria
Iranian general says Assad blocked Tehran’s effort to open Syrian front against Israel
Behrouz Esbati says now-ousted Syrian leader refused multiple requests to let Iran-backed militias attack from country after October 7; acknowledges regime’s fall a ‘very big blow’
By ToI Staff
Today, 2:07 pm
Iran’s former top general in Syria has revealed that Tehran pushed the since-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to open an additional front against Israel as it battled terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah over the past 15 months.
In a recording cited by the New York Times on Wednesday, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati said ties with Assad had been strained prior to the Syrian regime’s collapse at the beginning of December, over his refusal to let Iran-backed militias open a new front against Israel from Syria.
Iran had presented Assad with detailed plans to use Iranian resources in Syria to attack Israel, but despite multiple requests, he refused to let them go ahead, Esbati said.
Esbati spoke last week at a Tehran mosque, and his comments were reported in Iranian media on Monday, the NY Times said. In other remarks, Esbati acknowledged that the Islamic Republic was “defeated very badly” by the fall of Assad, despite Iranian leaders’ repeated efforts to downplay the matter.
He also was said to play down the notion of Iran again directly attacking Israel and accused Russia of shutting down radar systems in Syria during alleged Israeli attacks on Iranian resources.
The fall of the Assad regime came amid an ongoing war in the Gaza Strip that began on October 7, 2023, when the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas led thousands of terrorists to attack Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.
The next day Hezbollah began attacking along Israel’s northern border. That conflict also spiraled into an open war that ended with a fragile ceasefire at the end of November after Israel largely decimated Hezbollah’s leadership and resources.
In addition, other Iranian proxies, such as militias in Iraq and Yemen’s Houthis rebels, have also fired missiles and drones at Israel since the Gaza war started.
Advertisement
Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati, a senior #Iran regime general in #Syria who has worked also in the Armed Forces General Staff, gave remarks in recent days where he said “I don’t consider losing Syria something to be proud of. We were defeated, and defeated very badly, we took a very… pic.twitter.com/wR74HA1IVE
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) January 8, 2025
Despite the ostensible refusal of Assad to sanction the opening of a Syrian front with Israel, there were several rocket attacks from Iran-backed groups in Syria at northern Israel in the past 15 months, though apparently not at the scale Iran had sought. Such attacks had also occurred from time to time before the war started.
Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets at Israel during the same period. This, along with the threat of a possible massive cross-border attack similar to Hamas’s, forced the evacuation of 60,000 northern residents of Israel and tied up military resources that were deployed to the area. Israel launched an offensive against Hezbollah in September that eventually brought about a mediated truce in November.
Days after the battered Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in late November, the Assad regime fell, marking two major strategic setbacks for Iran. Hamas, too, has been greatly diminished by the war in Gaza, with many senior figures killed, including two of its long-time leaders.
