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SYRIA, HIZBULLAH, IRAN PREPARE IN CASE OF WAR (Wally Alert!!) |
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Syria, Hizbullah, Iran prepare in case of war
Saturday, April 07, 2007 - ?2005 IranMania.com
LONDON, April 7 (IranMania) - The prospect of an attack by the
United States against Iran has triggered a flurry of military activity
around the Middle East as Tehran mobilizes its allies to prepare a
defense, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
In a region where suspicion dominates and trust is rare, politicians
and analysts warn, mounting tensions between the US and Iran could spark a
war by accident.
"The situation is such that you can't rule out an unplanned
development," says Zvi Shtauber, director of the Institute for National
Security Studies at Tel Aviv University in Israel. "Since we're living in
an era where there is no negotiation, it looks like everything is open....
things are so fragile that you could have an accidental development."
Those concerns were voiced this week by Amos Yadlin, Israel's chief
of military intelligence, who told the government that Lebanese Hizbullah,
Syria, and Iran are making defensive preparations in expectation of war.
"We are closely monitoring these preparations because Iran, Syria and
Hizbullah could misinter-pret various moves in the region," Yadlin was
quoted by the Israeli Haaretz daily as saying. Israeli media reported that
Israel asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to relay to Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad during her visit to Damascus Wednesday a message of
reassurance that Israel has no intention of attacking.
Still, the Middle East has a grim history of bellicose rhetoric and
military gestures causing unintended consequences. A fatal chain of
misinterpreted muscle-flexing moves by Egypt and Israel provoked the
Arab-Israeli war of June 1967, a conflict that redrew the geostrategic map
of the Middle East, and the repercussions of which continue to be felt
today.
More recently, Hizbullah's abduction of two Israeli soldiers in a
cross-border raid on July 12 last year sparked a 34-day war that cost
Lebanon more than 1,000 lives and damage estimated at $3.6 bln. Hizbullah
leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah subsequently all but admitted that the
party's leadership had misread Israel's response to the abduction of the
two soldiers.
"If any of us had a 1% doubt that Israel was going to reply in this
savage manner, we wouldn't have captured those soldiers," he said in a
television interview.
President George W. Bush has vowed to resolve the crisis over Iran's
nuclear ambitions by the time he leaves office in early 2009.
Although the White House says it is pursuing diplomacy to achieve
its goal, it refuses to rule out the military option. The recent
disappearance of a senior Iranian general, the arrests of Iranian
diplomats in Iraq, and the deployment of US naval battle groups in the
Persian Gulf have raised expectations in the region that a US attack on
Iran may be imminent.
"US threats against Iran are no longer regarded by the Iranians and
Syrians as just saber-rattling, and it's only natural that they prepare
themselves," says Amal Saad-Ghorayeb of the Carnegie Endowment's Middle
East Center in Beirut.
Hizbullah officials and fighters say that the party has launched an
intensified training program with new recruits pushed through month-long
courses in camps scattered along the flanks of the Bekaa Valley in eastern
Lebanon. Veteran fighters receive refresher courses and can volunteer for
45-day programs to join special-forces units.
"There is a high level of recruitment. The rearmament is happening
because there will be a war with Syria. The Israelis cannot accept the
insult of the July war," says Mohammed, a Hizbullah activist in Beirut,
referring to last summer's conflict.
Analysts suspect, however, that Israel will bide its time to absorb
and apply the lessons learned from last summer's conflict before
contemplating a second round with its Lebanese foe.
Nawaf Mussawi, Hizbullah's foreign affairs adviser, says he doubts
that Israel's government is strong enough domestically to persuade the
public to support a second major war against Lebanon. But, he adds,
Hizbullah "is ready for all eventualities."
"What we expect, or don't expect, from Israel has nothing to do with
our preparations. In any situation, we are prepared," Mussawi says.
Iran's regionwide defensive preparations against a potential US
attack, ironically, have been aided by Washington's policy of politically
isolating Syria since 2003 and the Hamas-led Palestinian government since
last year.
Ignored by the US and Europe, Syria and Hamas turned to Iran. In
June 2006, Syria and Iran signed a mutual defense pact and last month
inked a protocol on deepening bilateral military cooperation.
"There is a belief very much in Syria and certainly with Hizbullah
that, should the Americans attack Iran, then Israel will get involved in a
preemptive operation here," says Timur Goksel, a Beirut-based
security-affairs analyst.
A Lebanese intelligence source says that the Syrian Army is being
taught some of the guerrilla-style tactics devised by Hizbullah in
Lebanon. "The Iranians are trying to convince Syria that if they use the
same tactics as Hizbullah and if they can last 20 to 30 days in a war with
Israel before a cease-fire, then [the public perception will be that] they
will have won and Israel will have lost," the source says.
Iran also took advantage of the refusal by Israel and the US to deal
with the Hamas government in the Palestinian territories, which was
elected in January 2006. Tehran stepped into the gap, pledging Hamas $150
mln to compensate for the freeze on Western development aid.
Israel claims that dozens of Hamas militants have traveled to Iran
for training and that Iranian-supplied weapons are being smuggled via
tunnels from Egypt into Gaza. "Hamas is doing all its best to arm itself.
The attempt to stop it is like putting a door in the middle of the
desert," Shtauber says, commenting on an Egyptian promise this week to
stave the flow of weapons. "You can just go around it."
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Re: SYRIA, HIZBULLAH, IRAN PREPARE IN CASE OF WAR (Wally Alert!!) |
07 Apr 2007 02:54:52 PM |
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"Dr. Bipolar" <doctorsalway...@theglobalasylum.com> wrote:
Syria, Hizbullah, Iran prepare in case of war
Chicken little is at it AGAIN.
We call them "bird brains" for a reason...
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| User: "Doc" |
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| Title: Re: SYRIA, HIZBULLAH, IRAN PREPARE IN CASE OF WAR (Wally Alert!!) |
07 Apr 2007 04:17:56 PM |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175975692.890037.146520@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
"Dr. Bipolar" <doctorsalway...@theglobalasylum.com> wrote:
Syria, Hizbullah, Iran prepare in case of war
Chicken little is at it AGAIN.
We call them "bird brains" for a reason...
Ooooh, noooo...honey bear poisoned the case for a widespread Middle East
war.
Dr. Bipolar :))~
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