Syria military intervention would engulf Israel, says Iranian official
Source: AL ARABIYA
Any crisis caused by a military intervention in Syria would engulf Israel, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned Wednesday, the Tehran Times reported on Thursday.
Larijani made the remarks in reference to calls by certain U.S. officials for a military campaign against Syria to put an end to Syrian regimes 14-month assault on its opposition.
U.S. military officials probably have a poor understanding of themselves and regional issues because Syria is in no way similar to Libya, and (the effects of) creating another Benghazi in Syria would spread to Palestine, and ash rising from the flames would definitely envelop the Zionist regime, Larijani said, according to the newspaper.
Read more: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/31/217655.html
tabatha
(18,795 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)TheWraith
(24,331 posts)One, the lack of an international consensus.
Two, the fact that the Syrian military is much larger and less of a pushover than the Libyan government was. Which probably helps feed number one.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)No subtlety there....
Intervene in Syria and Israel gets it.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)al-Arabiya is a mouthpiece of the Saudi royal family, active enemies of Iran and top supporters of the terrorist gangs in Syria.
Possibly not the case at this particular moment, but Saudi royal newspapers regularly invent wild statements and insinuations by obscure or public (more difficult in the latter case, though) Iranian military and political personalities and then get them picked up by other friendly papers in Israel, Europe & the US. It's a fine circle-jerk of war drums sometimes from the Hearst school of journalism at its worst..
may3rd
(593 posts)They need to keep the hate speak kool aid flowing and what is happening in Syria well filtered with the great firewall of the mullahs
oh yeaaaah !