A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry denies claims by the outgoing IDF chief over the weekend, who said the IDF has carried out thousands of airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria in recent years.
“The Zionist War Ministry’s comments are baseless, false, misleading, and is an attempt to justify the failures of the regime in the region,’ ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi says according to the official IRNA news agency.
He says Iran “does not have a military base and military presence in Syria and was present at the request of the Syrian government for advisory mission and fighting the terrorists.”
Ghasemi adds that the recent military victories by the Syrian regime have “caused the Zionists to be angry.”
IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot revealed to the New York Times the scale of Israel’s ongoing military campaign to thwart Iranian entrenchment in Syria on Friday. He said that Israel “struck thousands of targets without claiming responsibility or asking for credit.”
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