- Syria placed its army on war preparedness, pointed Scuds
at Israel from Thursday, July 20, the day Tehran took control of Lebanon
War
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- Our sources add Syrian fighter pilots are sitting in
their cockpits.
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- These orders went out from Syrian president Bashar Assad
July 20 when Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Brig.-Gen Yahya Rahim
Safavi (picture) assumed command of the Lebanon war from Hizballah leader
Hassan Nasrallah. Tehran's direct military intervention in the conflict
was accompanied by an Iranian weapons airlift which began landing Wednesday,
July 19, at the Abu Ad Duhur military airfield north of Homs. The deliveries
include large quantities of new missiles, including the long-range Zelzal
and Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles, Katyusha rockets, anti-tank and anti-air
missiles sent out from RG HQ in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf.
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- Assad acted on the assumption that Israel, whose air
force and ground forces are already hammering the cross-border supply routes
north of the Litani River to block the passage of Iranian hardware to Hizballah,
will soon decide to go for Iranian military operations in Damascus and
Abu Ad Duhur.
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- Gen. Safavi has set up two forward command posts which
coordinate war operations with Hizballah chief of staff Ibrahim Akil.
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- One center is working out of a cellar of the Iranian
embassy in Beirut to regulate Hizballah rocket fire against Israel and
direct the groups of 3 or 4 RG officers taking part in every Hizballah
face-to-face engagement with Israeli ground troops in the south.
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- The second, housed in the basement of the Iranian embassy
in Damascus, is in charge of communications, intelligence and getting hardware
into Lebanon.
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- The deliveries were made to the Abu Ad Duhur airfield
because it belongs to the joint Iranian-Syrian Scud missile factory which
employs a large number of Iranian engineers and technicians.
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- DEBKAfile's military sources report that some of the
Iranian arms have Hizballah in Lebanon notwithstanding intense Israeli
cutoff operations and their impact will probably be palpable in the coming
days.
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