Iran to arm West Bank Palestinians for new Eastern Front to "efface" Israel - www.debka.com
Al Qods commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, acting on the orders of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, this week set up a new Iranian command to fight Israel, debkafile reports exclusively from its military and intelligence sources.
It has been dubbed the Eastern Command of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.The Al Qods Brigades, which are the external terrorist arm of the Guards, are organized according to sectors, with commands for Hizballah, the Palestinians, Syria, Iraq and the Gulf.
Their newest sector is the Eastern Command which, our sources report has been assigned as its first task to start handing out weapons, including missiles, to any Palestinian West Bank group willing to receive them. Tehran's object is to transform the West Bank into a territory hostile to Israel on the model of southern Lebanon which is ruled by the armed Hizballah and the Gaza Strip under the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.
In the first week of August, Tehran published a book of 416 pages written by Ali Khamenei entitled "Palestine." The cover image was labeled "The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem."
The volume was released to Western sources, who reported that the most constantly recurring phrases in the text in relation to Israel are "nabudi" - meaning annihilation; imha - meaning disappearing or fading out; and "zaval" meaning effacement.
Khamenei asserts that Israel must be destroyed because it captured Islam's third most sacred city and is the foremost ally of "Big Satan" - America.
The Iranian leader goes into detail about exactly how Israel should be annihilated - not by "classical wars" or "massacres of the Jews" but by means of a "long period of low-intensity warfare designed to make life impossible for a majority of Israeli Jews."
When he visited Beirut on Aug. 12, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Zavad Zarif said it was necessary after the nuclear deal, to "confront the challenges of the region, the most important of which is the Zionist and extremist regime."
Members of the Obama administration wave away these disclosures of Iranian intent as no more than letting off steam to pacify the hard-line opponents of the nuclear deal - US Secretary of State John Kerry said on July 24: "I also told them that their chants of Death to American and so forth are neither helpful and they're pretty stupid."
But in Iran, the supreme leader's words are treated as decrees demanding obedience. Indeed, at the first conference of the new Eastern Command, Gen. Soleimani read out passages from Khamenei's book and told the officers that they were under orders to carry those decrees out to the letter.
Attesting to the seriousness of Iran's intent, Jmail Majdalani, PLO executive committee member and personal representative of Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank, has arrived in Tehran. He is there to arrange his boss's first visit in many years to the Iranian capital.
Head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Israel intelligence desk is executed as Israeli spy -http://www.debka.com/article/24815/Head-of-Iran's-Revolutionary-Guards'-Israel-intelligence-desk-is-executed-as-Israeli-spy
Highly credible Iranian exile sources in Europe have revealed to debkafile that the Director of the Israel Desk of the Revolutionary Guards clandestine service was executed by a firing squad in late June or early July after he was accused of spying for Israel.
Aged 46, Seyyed Ahmed Dabiri was his codename. His real name is not known. The sources report that he was tried by a Guards martial court and found guilty of tipping Israel off on classified information, including the movements of Iranian military commanders in Syria, Iranian arms shipments to Syria and arms convoys bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Suspicion first fell on Dabiri after the Israeli air force struck the convoy of Iranian and Hezbollah commanders that was on a top-secret visit to the village of Mazraat Amal near the Golan town of Quneitra on Jan. 18. They were there to survey the terrain preparatory to planting a Hezbollah rocket position just across from IDF's Golan outposts, a mission which ended in disaster.
Killed in the attack were the Iranian general in charge of the Syrian front, Gen. Mohammad Ali Allah-Dadi, the high-ranking Hezbollah intelligence officer Ali al-Tabtababni, who was in charge of liaison with the Iranian Guards, and Jihad Mughniyeh, son of the iconic Hezbollah commander in chief, the late Imad Mughniye. He had been assigned command of the Hezbollah Golan base whence to launch a new offensive against Israel.
After the air strike, the plan was abandoned, a setback with devastating effect on the Iranian and Hezbollah high commands. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah announced at the time that the gloves was now off against Israel and that "rules of engagement" with the Jewish state were no longer in force.
No more than a handful of big shots were privy to the Golan tour in the highest Revolutionary Guards highest echelon and the inner circle of Nasrallah.
The IRGC's chief Gen. Ali Jafari and Iran's Middle East commander in chief Gen. Qassem Suleimani ordered an all-encompassing investigation to find out who was responsible for leaking to Israeli intelligence the secret of the Golan tour.
According to the Iranian exiles, the high Hezbollah command and the Guards headquarters in Tehran were exhaustively investigated.
debkafile's sources point to the fact that on Jan. 5, two weeks before Israel's deadly air strike, Nasrallah's deputy, Sheikh Naim Qassem, complained that "Hezbollah is battling espionage within its ranks and has uncovered some major infiltrations."
A short time earlier, in December 2014, Mohammad Shawraba, 42, the deputy chief of Unit 910, which is responsible for external terrorist operations, was arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel.
So in the weeks leading up to the Israeli Golan attack, Hezbollah was buzzing with Israeli spy fever.
Yet the Guards probe failed to discover the source of the leak either in Beirut or Tehran.
When no Israeli mole was identified, the Guards intelligence chief Gen. Hassan Taeb set a trap and baited it with a false piece of intelligence.
On April 25, Israel air planes struck what they believed to be Syrian and Hezbollah bases and arms dumps in the Qalamoun Mountains on the Syrian-Lebanese border. Middle East media carried confused reports on this attack - some claiming it targeted an arms convoy heading into Lebanon from Syria; others cited missile stores or even the Syrian army's 155th and 65th Brigades. Israeli sources declined to confirm or deny any of those versions.
The cause of the mix-up was that the target was a red herring. But the attack enabled Iranian spy catchers to narrow down the source and discover that Ahmad Dabiri was the mole who had tipped Israel off..
'Iran trying to move Yakhont missiles and SA-22 Air Defense Systems to Hezbollah' - Herb Keinon - http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Iran-trying-to-move-Yakhont-missiles-and-SA-22-Air-Defense-Systems-to-Hezbollah-412754
Iran is trying to transfer state-of the-art weaponry, including the SA-22 Air Defense System and the Yakhont anti-ship cruise missile, from military storehouses in Syria to Hezbollah, Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday from Berlin.
Gold, on his first trip as foreign ministry director-general to a European capital for high- level talks, said Iran is busy trying to convert its signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, into diplomatic benefits in Europe, with Berlin one of the capitals they are active in.
Gold said he explained to his interlocutors - including-his counterpart in the German Foreign Ministry and senior officials in the German Chancellery, how the regional situation has become more complicated as a result of the Iranian nuclear deal, and that there was no evidence whatsoever that Iran was moving in a more moderate direction in 2015.
Also in Berlin at the same time, and also holding high-level meetings and apparently trying to convince the Germans of the opposite, was Iran's deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Amir-Abdollahian, as well as Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah and the UN's special envoy on Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, were in the German capital this week to discuss the Yemen crisis. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for the Saudis to halt military operations and for a cease-fire in Yemen.
Gold said that Berlin has recently turned into a focal point for Middle East diplomacy.
Gold said that he briefed his interlocutors on the continued subversive efforts of the Iranians in the Middle East, including -- in addition to trying to transfer arms to Hezbollah -- recent Hezbollah attempts to move explosives from Iraq into Kuwait, and efforts over the last six months to set up a new Hezbollah front against Israel on the Golan Heights.
If this type of activity has been going on for the last six months, Gold asked, "then what happens when the sanctions on Iran are lifted, and they get a cash bonus of up to $150 billion?"
"Iran will then be equipped to radically increase its destabilizing activities along Israel's borders," he said.
Gold said his meetings in Berlin come at a time when "there is an underlying assumption in the West that Iran may be adopting a more moderate course of action."
The four rockets fired on Galilee came from the new Iranian terror front on the Golan - http://www.debka.com/article/24827/The-four-rockets-fired-on-Galilee-came-from-the-new-Iranian-terror-front-on-the-Golan
Israel's top government and military went on a high level of preparedness Tuesday, Aug. 18 in expectation of the first terrorist attack to be orchestrated by Iran from Syrian or Lebanese borders. That is what brought Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gady Eisenkott on a tour of inspection to the Golan and Northern Command headquarters. Netanyahu said then that Israel is ready for any scenario and would "harm anyone trying to harm us."
debkafile's military sources report that these events were sparked by the knowledge reaching Israeli intelligence that Iranian Al Qods and Hezbollah officers were building a new terrorist network for mounting large-scale terrorist attacks on Israel from the Syrian border opposite the Golan.
The officers had handed out anti-tank and anti-air rockets to the terrorists, raising Israeli suspicions that one of their plans was to seize an Israeli location or part of one and try and hold out against an Israeli counter-offensive of tanks and assault helicopters.
Our counter-terrorism sources disclose that three radical terrorist movements staff the new network:
One is the hard-line rejectionist Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC).
Another is the Golan-based Syrian Druze group known as Liberators of the Golan. It is headed by the notorious Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese Druze who has set up a Golan terror ring based in the Druze village of Al-Khadar opposite the Israeli border fence.
Also harnessed to Iran's new Golan terror organization is the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) which is made up of radical Christian terrorists. This old timer violent group, which is run by Syrian intelligence, took part in the 1982-3 Hezbollah bombing massacres at the US Embassy and Marine headquarters in Beirut.
The first SSNP activists have arrived in the Quneitra district of the Golan.
According to our military sources, it is this Iranian-backed network which Thursday, Aug. 20, fired a salvo of four rockets from the Golan into upper Galilee and the Golan. The impact set off brush fires but caused no casualties. A red alert had sent most people running to shelters.
This was an unusually long-range attack: Previous launches from within Syria, whether deliberate or stray fire from the civil war there, hit the Israeli-held Golan without reaching the Israeli interior. It is now up to Israel to decide how and when to respond to an act of war orchestrated by Tehran, after the prime minister's warning Tuesday had no deterrent effect.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards behind Syria rocket fire, army says - By Judah Ari Gross -
http://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-revolutionary-guards-behind-syria-rocket-fire-army-says/
Palestinian commander planned assault, and the Islamic Jihad terror group carried it out, defense sources say; IDF responds with largest assault in decades
A commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards orchestrated Thursday's rocket fire on northern Israel from Syria, military sources said late Thursday night, prompting an unusually strong response from the Israel Defense Forces.
According to a senior Israeli security official, Saeed Izadi, the head of the Palestinian Division of the Iranian al-Quds Force planned the attack, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group that operates mostly out of the Gaza Strip, but whose headquarters are in Damascus, carried it out. The Islamic Jihad has denied its involvement.
Throughout the Syrian civil war, mortar shells have occasionally strayed into Israel, but this was not the case on Thursday when four rockets struck the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights, the official said.
"We understand that this attack was clearly a deliberate one," he said.
Israel held the Syrian government responsible for the attacks, retaliating with its largest assault on Syrian territory in decades. The IDF fired artillery shells and launched airstrikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, hitting 14 military posts in the Syrian Golan Heights, the defense official said.
The strikes hit artillery batteries near the city of Quneitra, several army outposts and communications antennae, local news sites reported.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a number of Syrian soldiers had been injured or killed, though the claim was disputed by official Syrian television.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon warned the rocket fire was merely a "coming attraction" for future Iranian-funded attacks on Israel. With sanctions relief as part of the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran will increase support for its Middle East proxies, he maintained.
"What we have seen tonight is just a coming attraction for a richer and more murderous Iran," Ya'alon said in a statement.
"This is the intention of the bloody regime from Tehran, and the Western world cannot just sweep that fact under the rug," he added.
Nadav Pollak, a senior researcher at the Washington Institute, told The Times of Israel that the use of rockets, instead of mortar shells, was intentional.
This is a way for the Quds Force to say, "You know that it was us, but the rockets prove that it was," Pollak explained. If mortars had been used, he said, it may have been thought to be errant fire.
This was a much larger assault than the IDF has carried out in the past in Syria, Pollak said.
"It's the IDF saying, 'OK, you crossed a line,'" Pollak explained.
Many would have anticipated that Hezbollah, one of the dominant groups in the northern region with strong ties to Iran, would be behind this sort of attack, he said.
In recent months, however, there has been an escalation in the hostilities between the IDF and the terrorist organization, therefore if Hezbollah had carried out the attack, Pollak said, the response by Israel would have been much harsher.
"[Using the Islamic Jihad] was an attempt to distance themselves from Hezbollah," Pollak said.
The Islamic Jihad is considered even more radical than Hamas, he said, and Iran therefore gives the group greater financial support.
"The connection between the PIJ and Syria and the Quds Force is really strong," Pollak said.
Despite threats by the Islamic Jihad of an attack on Israel over Mohammed Allaan, who the terror group and Israel maintain is a member of the Islamic Jihad, and who had been on a 65-day hunger strike in an Israeli prison until Thursday, Israeli defense officials have denied any connection to the case.
This attack by Izadi and the PIJ was likely a response to an alleged Israeli airstrike three weeks ago, in which two Hezbollah operatives and three Assad supporters were killed, Pollak said.
In the wake of the Iran nuclear accord, the Islamic Republic may also be attempting to "test the waters" for a future larger-scale attack, Pollak maintained.
Abbas Turns to Iran for Help in Destroying Israel - By Raphael Poch -
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/47203/abbas-turns-to-iran-for-help-in-destroying-israel-middle-east/#PXbbdS9Ca8DZkKzc.97
"Let the counsel of the wicked be far from me." (Job 21:16)
The military wing of Fatah in Gaza has publicly asked Iran for funding in order to help carry out attacks against Israel, according to Iranian Al-Alam TV. Fatah's military branch, known as the Al-Aqsa Brigade, is an internationally recognized terror organization, closely associated with the larger Fatah movement, which controls the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.
The request for Iranian funds came as the PA announced that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would be travelling to Iran. Palestinian Media Watch reported on Monday that senior PLO official Abbas Zaki has said strengthening ties with Iran is "an inevitable step if we [the Palestinians] want to confront the Israeli occupation."
Palestinian overtures to Iran began earlier this month, when Abbas sent PLO Executive Committee Member Ahmed Majdalani, a senior Palestinian official, to Tehran in order to deliver a personal letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. According to Majdalani, the letter contained information regarding the "Israeli offensives against our people and its holy places."
Majdalani travelled to Iran under the guise of repairing the relations between the Palestinian people and the Islamic Republic. During the meeting, both parties agreed to determine actual steps to bring about the end of the "occupation" in "Palestine." Additionally, the Palestinians agreed to participate in resolving the Syrian crisis.
Until now, the PA has been very reluctant to take sides in the Syrian conflict. However, in light of the recent nuclear deal with Iran, the PA has apparently opted to support Iranian-backed Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
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