Thursday, October 09, 2008

Iran/Israel/Syria: On Ground Updates - October 09, 2008

Iran/Israel/Syria: On Ground Updates
Israel on High Alert for Syrian, Hizballah Attacks
Thursday
, October 09, 2008
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* Here’s two interesting posts I found on the PressTV.ir website. The first was posted on Oct. 3rd and it starts off like this... Israel seems adamant about prodding Americans into a cul-de-sac, despite the vivid picture Iran has painted of the chaos that would follow military action against its nuclear infrastructure...
Read the rest at link below...
Israel laying its yellow brick road to Iran war
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> Here’s the 2nd post by PressTV.ir, (it was posted on Oct. 9th) and it starts off like this...
Israel deploys forces along the northern border, claiming that Syria or Hezbollah might attack the regime during Yom Kippur holidays... The Israeli web site Debka said on Wednesday that Israel had stepped up security measures along its borders with Lebanon and Syria after Damascus" deployed its military units to the Lebanese Beqaa Valley border on Tuesday"...
Read the rest at link below...

Israel braces for attack from north
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* Now here’s how the DEBKAfile reported the above news...
Israel on high alert for Syrian, Hizballah Yom Kippur attacks
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* About midmorning I ran across this Reuters article written by Guy Faulconbridge and it stats off like this... Russia denied on Thursday it would sell air defence systems to "troubled regions" after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried this month to win a pledge from Moscow that it would not sell advanced arms to Iran... Asked if Russia had promised not to deliver S-300 defence systems to Iran, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "We have already repeatedly stated at the very highest political levels that we do not intend to deliver those types of arms to countries which are located in troubled regions."... Media reports in the past few months, citing security sources, have said Russia may sell the Iran S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, a weapon that could help Tehran fend off an attack by Israel or the United States...
Read the rest at link below...
No air defence sales to troubled regions - Russia
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* PressTV.ir has this following follow-up report, midafternoon today... Moscow rejects reports that it may arm Iran, saying it has no plan to equip Tehran with the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system... "We have declared more than once at the very highest political level that we do not intend to supply those types of armaments to countries located in regions that are, to put it mildly, unstable areas," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko on Thursday...
Read this report at link below...
Russia: No S-300 defense system for Iran...
IDF file photo
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