Supreme Leader's Adviser Denies Any Iranian Forces Hit In Israel's Weekend Attack On Syria

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 25th August, 2019) The Secretary of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council, an advisory body under the supreme leader, has refuted Israeli military's claims that Iranian forces were hit in its overnight airstrikes near Damascus.

Earlier on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that they attacked Iranian forces and "Shiite Militia targets" in Syria. The IDF claimed that the operation was meant to prevent a "pending, large-scale attack of multiple killer drones on Israel."

"The United States and Israel are incapable of attacking Iranian centers and positions, and Israel's claim that Iranian positions became their target is a lie .

.. Our [military] advisory centers were not affected," Mohsen Rezaee told the ILNA news agency.

He added that the activities of Israel and the United States in Syria ran counter to the international law, pledging that the "defenders of Iraq and Syria will soon respond to it."

Israel has been strongly opposing Iran's military presence in Syria, fearing Tehran might gain increased influence in the region. Iran maintains that it has only its advisers in the Arab republic, who are present there at the request of the Syrian government, while the US presence and Israel's regular attacks on Syria have no legal basis.