Iran’s security head: Israel will ‘regret’ striking Syrian targets
Published February 4, 2013
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will “regret” striking targets in Syria, Iran’s national security council head said during a visit to Damascus.
“(T)he Zionist entity will regret its aggression against Syria,” Saeed Jalili, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Monday morning.
“Syria is at the forefront of the Muslim world’s confrontation with the Zionist entity,” Jalili also reportedly said.
His comments came a day after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Munich Security Conference implied that Israel was responsible for a strike last week on a Syrian military facility and also reportedly a convoy of advanced missiles being delivered to Hezbollah.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied that it was responsible for the strikes on Syrian territory.
Iran and Syria previously had threatened to retaliate against Israel.
Jalili also threatened to respond to the attack in international organizations, in Iran’s role as head of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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