Leaders of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria and Iran met to discuss issues of a common interest in the Middle East region and internationally. The meeting comes amid threats of military action against Iran by the United States., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Explosions Hit Scientific Research Center in Jamraya Caused by an Israeli Rocket Attack
May 05, 2013
DAMASCUS, SANA_ Several explosions hit al-Hameh area in Damascus countryside on Sunday.
Initial information indicated that the explosions took place in Jamraya and targeted the Scientific Research Center there causing casualties.
The information also indicated that these explosions have been caused by Israeli rocket attacks.
The new Israeli aggression is a clear attempt to raise the gunmen morale after the painful blows they received at the hands of our valiant army in several places and after the achievements which were realized on the ground by our armed forces to restore security and stability to Syria.
The new Israeli aggression shows the direct involvement of the Zionist entity in the conspiracy against Syria and the relationship that links the armed terrorist groups with the Israeli hostile schemes backed by the Western, regional and some Gulf states.
Senior Israeli Official Admits Aggression on Jamraya Center
Meanwhile, a high ranking Israeli official admitted that Israel launched an aggression on Syria early Sunday.
AFP quoted the Israeli official, who asked not to be named, as saying that Israel launched an air attack early Sunday morning on sites in Damascus Countryside using "Iranian weapons" as a pretext.
The Israeli official added that Israel's air force is at a very high level of readiness to face any possibility.
US President Barack Obama reiterated in a statement on Saturday thatIsrael has the right to work to defend itself.
Earlier, the Jamraya site was the target of an Israeli strike on January 30.
People's Assembly Denounces Israeli Aggression, Calls on International Community to Take Firm Stance
May 05, 2013
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The People's Assembly strongly denounced the treacherous Israeli aggression against sites in Damascus Countryside, saying it constitutes a blatant interference in the Syrian crisis which reflects Israel's involvement in the plot against Syria.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the People's Assembly said that the aggression clearly shows that the terrorists, who have always sought the aid of NATO and Israel, are on their last legs thanks to the actions of the Syrian Army.
The Assembly said that Syria's leadership, Army and people are fully capable of defending its sovereignty against any foreign aggression, and that those who think that Syria is preoccupied with its crisis and fighting terrorism and cannot repel a foreign aggression are deluded, asserting that the Syrian people will not be broken.
The statement noted that this aggression couldn't have happened without being greenlit by the US and without coordination with the Arab Gulf and other sides in the region, particularly after the "pilgrimages" carried out by sides from the Arab Gulf to Washington in which they begged for US military intervention to save their terrorist pawns from defeat at the hands of the Syrian Army.
The Assembly said that the organized international terrorism led by Israel requires the international community as represented by the Security Council and the UN to take a firm stance and put an end to Israel's violation of international law and countries' sovereignty.
The statement concluding by saying that Israel's terrorism requires the region's countries to take a clear stance regarding the ongoing Israeli piracy.
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Foreign Ministry: The Israeli Aggression Stresses Coordination with the Terrorist Groups
May 06, 2013
DAMASCUS, (SANA)- Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Sunday said the flagrant Israeli aggression on sites for the Armed Forces in Syria stresses coordination between Israel and the terrorist groups and the takfiris who are affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra, which is an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
In two identical letters addressed to the UN Security Council President and the UN Secretary General, the Foreign Ministry clarified that at 1:40 am on Sunday May 5th, 2013, Israeli warplanes carried out an air missile attack from the occupied territories and southern Lebanon on three sites of the Armed Forces in Syria, namely in the northeast of Jamraya, in Maysaloun and at a paragliding airport in al-Dimas area in Damascus and its countryside.
It added that the Israeli aggression resulted in a number of martyrs and injured people and caused widespread destruction in these sites and the civilian areas around them.
The Ministry added that this coordination between Israel and the terrorist groups aims "to provide a direct military support to these groups after they have recently failed in their attempts to gain any ground."
"This leaves no room for doubt Israel is the beneficiary, the mover and sometime the executor of the terrorist acts which Syria is witnessing and which target it as a state and people directly or through its tools inside," the Ministry stressed in its letters.
It added that Syria stresses in this framework the falseness of the allegations made by Israel over the recent period to justify its aggressive acts using the pretext of "transferring weapons outside the Syrian borders."
The Ministry made clear that "Israel's continuation to carry out its aggressive acts would increase tension in the region and drag it into a large-scale regional war that would threaten peace and security in the region and the world."
The letters pointed out that the Syrian government considers that the U.S. statements which preceded and followed the Israeli raids have encouraged Israel to carry out its aggression and provided it with a political cover to violate the Syrian sovereignty in a clear breach of the UN Charter and the international law rules.
"While stressing its right to defend itself , its land and sovereignty, the Syrian Arab Republic demands that the international Security Council shoulder its responsibilities to stop the Israeli aggression on Syria and prevent its recurrence and prevent the deterioration of the situation in the region so as not to go out of control," the Ministry said.
It concluded its letters by saying that Syria considers that the continuation of some permanent member states of the Security Council to provide the cover for Israel to go on with its aggression and occupation of the Arab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan, holds them fully responsible for the repercussions that could result from the Israeli aggressive acts.
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Iran, Lebanon, Sudan, Algeria Condemn Israel's New Assault on Jamraya Center
May 05, 2013
TEHRAN, (SANA) – Speaker of Iran's Shura Council, Ali Larijani, stressed that Israel's new aggression on the scientific research center of Jamraya in Damascus Countryside consolidates Iran's stance on the events in the region which affirms that the main goal behind creating the crisis in Syria is to undermine the axis of resistance.
Addressing the Council on Sunday, Larijani said the recent events in the region have showed clearly that the aim behind "the adventure in Syria" led by the US, the Zionist entity and the Arab reactionary sides is to take the Zionist entity out of its isolation in the region through a fake plot.
He added that the media hype stirred by the US and the West on accusing Syria of using chemical weapons aims mainly to cover the fact that they are actually floundering on the ground, with their tools of terrorists being in difficult situation in the various Syrian areas.
Iran's Defense Minister: Israel's Assault Was Given Green Light by US
For his part, Iranian Defense Minister, Maj. Gen. Ahmad Wahidi, said the aggression carried out by the usurper entity on Jamraya scientific research center jeopardizes the entire region and it is at the same time a proof of this entity's weakness and confusion due to the latest regional developments.
Speaking in a statement on Sunday, Maj. Gen. Wahidi stressed that the Israeli assault was carried out with "a green light" from America and it again exposes the connection between the armed terrorist groups in Syria and their backers with the Zionist occupation.
Iran's Foreign Ministry: Israel's Assault Would Lead to Destabilizing the Region
Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli aggression on the scientific research center in Jamraya, stressing that this aggression would lead to destabilizing the region.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Ramin Mehmanparast, denounced in a statement on Sunday this aggression, noting that the Israeli entity persists on destabilizing the region.
Israel launched a flagrant rocket attack on the Scientific Research Center in Jamraya in Damascus Countryside earlier on Sunday in a clear attempt to succor the armed terrorist groups after the painful blows the Syrian Army inflicted on them, and after the Armed Forces made major advancements to restore security and stability to Syria.
Salehi: Israeli Aggression Shows Link between Israel and Terrorist Groups in Syria
In an interview with Al-Manar TV, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi denounced the Israeli aggression on sites in Syria, stressing that it shows the organic link between Israel and the terrorists and mercenaries fighting the Syrian people.
He asserted that this aggression is a response to the achievements of the Syrian Army on the ground and that it was greenlit by the US and western countries, affirming that the Israeli aggression contradicts all international resolutions and agreements and noting that if the opposite happened, the whole world would have made risen in uproar.
Salehi called on all sides in the region and the world to band together and help find a peaceful solution for the crisis in Syria.
Algeria Denounces the Israeli Attack
Algeria on Sunday expressed strong condemnation of the Israeli aggression on Syrian sites, stressing that the attack is a flagrant violation of the international law and the sovereignty of an Arab state.
Speaker for the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ammar Balani, said that Algeria calls upon the UN Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities as to put an end to the outrageous violations that could escalate the regional situation.
Lebanese Foreign Minister: Israel's Assault Aims to Blow up the Region
In the same context, Lebanese Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Adnan Mansour, condemned the Zionist aggression on the scientific research center in Jamraya in Damascus Countryside, describing it as "a dangerous act that aims to blow up the region."
"Once again the Israeli entity of terrorism carries out a new aggression on Syria using false pretexts to justify this barbarous aggression," said Mansour.
He added that Israel wants through this assault "to pave the way for a large-scale aggression to blow up the region and push it into a destructive confrontation, showing no concern about the disastrous outcomes that could result from this."
The Lebanese Foreign Minister expressed denunciation of the international community's silence towards the aggressive acts of Israel.
In an interview with al-Mayadin TV, Mansour said called for making brave decisions and standing against Syria instead of making do with statements and condemnations, since the Israeli aggression targets all Arabs.
He stressed that Syria must not be left alone, asserting that the Arab nation has considerable resources and asking if this is not the time to use them against the Israeli aggression, then when will it be used?
Lebanese President Denounces Israeli Aggression, Calls for Firm International Response
In a statement issued by his press office, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman denounced the Israeli attacks on sites in Syria, saying that such behavior isn't unusual for an enemy whose policy is based on aggression and who exploited the current circumstances in Syria to carry out its attacks, just like it did in Lebanon in its times of difficulty.
Sleiman called on the international community and the Security Council in particular to take stringent measures against Israel to dissuade it from its policy of aggression and violating other countries' sovereignty, calling for forcing Israel to comply with international resolutions and become involved in the just and comprehensive peace process.
Sudanese Information Minister: Israeli Aggression on Syria is an Aggression against Arab Nation
The Sudanese government's spokesman, Minister of Culture and Media Information Ahmad Bilal Othman, affirmed that the Israeli aggression on sites in Syria constitutes an aggression against the entire Arab nation.
Othman told al-Mayadin TV that for Israel to attack Syrian sites while Arabs don't step in is a shameful thing for the Arab nation, calling on Arabs to reconsider the steps they took against Syria and acknowledge that major mistakes were made in this regard.
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