| Russia arms Syria with powerful ballistic missiles |
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| Sunday, 09 December 2012 10:17 |
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Hours
after NATO agreed on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to Turkey because
of the crisis in Syria, Russia delivered its first shipment of Iskander
missiles to Syria.
The superior Iskander can travel at
hypersonic speed of over 1.3 miles per second (Mach 6-7) and has a
range of over 280 miles with pinpoint accuracy of destroying targets
with its 1,500-pound warhead, a nightmare for any missile defense
system.
According to Mashregh,
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard media outlet, Russia had warned Turkey
not to escalate the situation, but with Turkey’s request for Patriot
missiles, it delivered its first shipment of Iskanders to Syria.
Reporting today, Mashregh said the handover occurred when Russian naval logistic vessels docked at Tartus in Syria.
The Iskandar is a surface-to-surface
missile that no missile defense system can trace or destroy, Mashregh
said. Russia had earlier threatened that should America put its missile
defense system in Poland, it would retaliate by placing its Iskander
missiles at Kaliningrad, its Baltic Sea port.
Russia’s delivery of Iskanders to Bashar
Assad’s embattled regime clearly shows that the security and stability
of Syria remains Russia’s red line, Mashregh said. It is unknown how
many of these missiles have been delivered but the numbers given are
sufficient to destroy any Patriot missiles in Turkey, it said.
The delivery of the missile not only
threatens the security of Turkey but also Israel, which would have to
recalculate its strategy with its defensive and offensive capabilities.
As reported in a WND exclusive on Dec. 5,
Iran’s Islamic regime also sees the toppling of the Assad regime as its
red line and has 170 ballistic missiles targeting Tel Aviv in
underground missile silos, some with biological warheads.
In August,
a commentary in Mashregh, representing the regime’s views, warned
America and Israel that further instability in Syria would spark a
pre-emptive attack on Israel in which the use of weapons of mass
destruction – biological, chemical and even nuclear bombs – won’t be off
the table. It stated that certain groups (proxies, such as Hezbollah)
have been armed with WMDs and that Israel will be their target.
The Mashregh commentary charged that Israel
is one of the conspirators behind the Syrian crisis in order to
strategically change the geopolitics of the region and defeat one of the
main players in the Islamic world’s “resistance front” (Iran, Syria and
Hezbollah). It warned Israel that with the direction it has chosen,
“There is a dead end, and the threat of mass killing awaits.”
The Islamic regime in Iran for its part
continues to ship arms to Syria via Iraq both by air and ground while
its Quds Forces help the Assad regime in killing its own people. To
date, over 40,000 people, including many women and children, have died
since the Syrian uprising began in March of 2011.
Reports indicate that Assad has decided to
use chemical weapons on his own people as a last attempt to save his
rule. Speaking in Prague on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton warned Syria that the use of chemical weapons would be a red line, indicating that America would retaliate.
Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, has ordered the Guards and its Quds Forces to use all of
their capabilities to protect Assad and has threatened war against those
helping the rebels in Syria, primarily Saudi Arabia and Turkey,
according to a source who had served in the Revolutionary Guards
intelligence unit but who has since defected.
The source added that the recent Gaza
conflict was a warning to America and Israel that the Islamic regime in
Iran can destabilize the region further should the push in Syria
continue to topple Assad. The region will witness terrorist attacks,
assassinations and incitement for uprisings in countries allied with
America as the situation in Syria further deteriorates, the regime has
promised, according to the source.
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