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Syrian and Iranian in War Consultations
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John Henry
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Jun 12, 2007 01:26 PDT
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SYRIAN AND IRANIAN GENERALS IN INTENSIVE WAR CONSULTATIONS
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
June 9, 2007
DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Middle East sources take a
look at the actions behind the words issuing from Damascus officials
affirming Syria’s willingness to go into peace talks with
Israel.
During most of last week, two high-ranking Iranian delegations spent time
in Damascus. One was composed of generals who held talks with Syrian
leaders on coordinated preparations for a Middle East war in the coming
months.
At the Iranian end, a similar high-ranking Syrian military delegation
called in at Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards headquarters to
tighten operational coordination between them at the command level, as
well as inspecting the Iranian arsenal. The Syrian general staff will
draw up a list of items it is short of for a possible military
confrontation with Israel this summer.
Our sources report that last week, Tehran sent Moscow a check for $327 m
to pay for assorted missiles consigned to Damascus. A further $438 m has
been pledged by the end of June for more hardware to Syria.
Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s three days of talks in
Damascus at the end of May further consolidated the strategic partnership
between the two governments under the mutual defense pact they signed a
year ago.
Their deliberations produced concurrence on the following
issues:
1. Expanded economic cooperation, i.e. an enlarged Iranian aid package
for Syria including monetary assistance and an extra 5 million tons of
oil gratis per annum on top of the one million already
guaranteed.
Syrian president Bashar Assad drove a hard bargain: He demanded a larger
slice of economic aid as the price for entering into strategic
cooperation with Iran for the coming war.
2. The Assad government agreed not to take any military - or other steps
with military connotations - without prior notice to Tehran and its
assent. This clause applies equally to activating the Lebanese Hizballah
and the Palestinian Hamas’ Damascus headquarters.
3. Reciprocal visits by Syrian and Iranian generals and political
officials will be stepped up.
4. In Iraq, Iran and Syria agreed to jointly intensify their terrorist
operations against US and British troops.
The regime heads in Tehran are basing their common front with Damascus on
intelligence reports whereby the US and Israel have drawn up plans for
coordinated military action against Iran, Syria and Hizballah in the
summer.
According to this hypothesis, Iranian leaders foresee the next UN
Security Council in New York at the end of June or early July ending with
an American announcement that the sanctions against Tehran are inadequate
because Russia and China has toned them down. Therefore, the military
option is the only one left on the table. The ayatollahs have concluded
that US president George W. Bush is determined to bow out of office on
the high note of a glittering military success against Iran to eclipse
his failures in Iraq.
They believe he will not risk the lives of more Americans by mounting a
ground operation, but rather unleash a broad missile assault that will
wipe out Iran’s nuclear facilities and seriously cripple its economic
infrastructure.
According to the Iranian scenario, the timeline for hostilities has
already been fixed between Washington and Jerusalem - and so has the plan
of action. The US will strike Iran first, after which Israel will use the
opportunity to go for Syria, targeting its air force, missile bases and
deployments, as well as Hizballah’s missile and weapons stocks which Iran
replenished this year.
Officials in Tehran and Damascus find confirmation of their intelligence
evaluations in the visit Israel’s transport minister Shaul Mofaz paid to
Washington last week at the head of a large military delegation. They are
certain Mofaz, a former defense minister and chief of staff, used the
strategic talks to tie the last ends of the planned offensive. They were
perturbed in particular by the Israel minister’s reported advice to
secretary of state Condoleezza Rice of the importance of setting a
deadline, beyond which the US will abandon sanctions as ineffective and
turn to its remaining options for dealing with Iran’s advance towards a
nuclear weapons capability.
Considering the climate in Damascus and Tehran and their active pursuit
of preparations for imminent attack, it is not surprising that Israeli
prime minister Ehud Olmert received no reply to the note he sent to Assad
proposing peace talks and offering the Golan as an incentive. Assad was
not inclined to take the Israeli prime minister seriously. According to
DEBKAfile’s sources in Jerusalem, Olmert did not really
expect him to. The offer was more in the nature of clearing the decks
ahead of Olmert’s White House visit later this month.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1279
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The Lord Jesus said, "... Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but
the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew
24:4-8) The "sorrows" here are like those of a woman when
she about to delivered her child. God told Eve that He would
"greatly multiply [her] sorrow and [her] conception; in sorrow [she
would] bring forth children" (Genesis 3:16). Similarly a
"sign of [Christ's] coming, and of the end of the world"
(Matthew 24:3) will be as a woman's birth pains increase as time for
delivery nears. All five of the things in Matthew 24:4-7 (false
christs, wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes) will be simultaneously
increasing as the time of the end draws near. Research shows that
this is in fact occurring in our lifetime.
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