Iran safety chief says ‘new resistance’ towards Israel to emerge in Syria

Israeli troopers put together to be deployed to the Gaza Strip close to the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024.
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Iran’s safety chief Ali Akbar Ahmadian stated a brand new group would emerge in Syria to struggle Israel following the autumn of president Bashar al-Assad, state media reported.

“With the occupation of Syrian territories by the Zionist regime, a brand new resistance has been born that can present itself within the years to come back,” stated Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Nationwide Safety Council, IRNA information company reported late Monday.

In a gathering with Oman’s international minister, Ahmadian insisted that Iran’s anti-Israel axis of resistance was “not weakened” after the December 8 fall of Assad, a longtime Tehran ally.

Assad fled Syria after insurgent forces led by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized the capital Damascus after a lightning offensive.

Since his fall, Israel has carried out a whole lot of air strikes on Syrian army amenities since Assad’s fall, saying it aimed to forestall them from falling into hostile fingers.

Israeli troops additionally occupied strategic positions in a UN-patrolled buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights which it seized within the 1967 Arab-Israeli battle.

The transfer was described by UN chief Antonio Guterres as a breach of the 1974 armistice between the 2 international locations.

Iran has since condemned Israel’s seizure of land in Syria.

Tehran’s allies within the area, together with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, have suffered extreme blows in conflicts with Israel because the outbreak of the Gaza battle in 2023.

Throughout Monday’s assembly, Ahmadian maintained that Iran has “not modified” its nuclear doctrine towards pursuing atomic weapons, IRNA reported.

Final month Iran’s international minister Abbas Araghchi stated in an interview with The Guardian newspaper that frustration in Tehran over unmet commitments, resembling lifting sanctions, was fuelling debate over whether or not the nation ought to alter its nuclear coverage.

Iran insists on its proper to nuclear power for peaceable functions and has persistently denied any ambition of creating weapons functionality.