israel recently carried out a spate of missile strikes on alleged Iranian targets in Syria. The Syrian air defences reportedly destroyed over 30 Israeli cruise missiles and guided bombs during the attack, which lasted two days.
Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, head of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, claimed that the Russian-made S-300 missile defence system, which is deployed in Syria, was “inactive” during a recent Israeli missile attack on Damascus, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
Falahat-Pisheh insisted that if the S-300 systems in Syria operated correctly, the Israeli military would be unable to easily conduct airstrikes on Syria, which it conducted for two days in a row.
Netanyahu Says Israel to Continue Withstanding ‘Iran's Aggression' in Syria
The remarks came after the Syrian Foreign Ministry notified the United Nations that the Israeli airstrikes were possible only with US support, and with immunity “silently” approved by some other members of the UN Security Council.
Referring to Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in turn, urged israel to stop “the practice of arbitrary strikes on the territory of a sovereign state”.
In early October, Russia completed its delivery of new S-300 systems to Syria, including 49 units of systems-related equipment such as radars, basic target acquisition systems,…
