Israel Will Keep Striking Iran in Syria

 

 

February 27, 2019 

On February 27 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Iran’s presence in Syria at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. 

 

Speaking in Hebrew translated into Russian, Netanyahu first began his comments by inviting Putin to attend the inauguration of a memorial in Jerusalem commemorating the victims of around 1 million soldiers and civilians who died at Leningrad siege, which lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, in World War II. Putin immediately accepted the invitation to visit Jerusalem for the event.

 

For the last few years, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against Iranian entrenchment in Syria. In September 2017 a Russian reconnaissance plane with 15 servicemen on board was mistakenly shot down by Syrian air defenses while responding to an Israeli air strike. 

Russia blamed Israel for the incident and since has dispatched S-300 anti-missile systems to Syria and could be deployed to target against Israeli planes.

 

In their meeting, Netanyahu discussed Russia’s advanced S-300 air defense batteries in Syria and persuaded Putin that Israel is “determined to continue the aggressive activity against Iran” and Iran must not be allowed to establish a presence in Syria.

 

 

 

 

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