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IRAN MISSILE TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIED TO HAMAS IN GAZA - COMMANDER
November 21, 2012 - 19:12 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran has supplied Hamas in Gaza with the technology
to "quickly" produce longer-range missiles on their own without
needing direct shipments, said a report Wednesday, November 21 that
quoted the head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, AP reported.
The comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari offer some of the clearest
insights on Iran's weapons support for Hamas, whose Iranian-engineered
Fajr-5 missiles have struck near Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during weeklong
battles with Israel.
"Gaza is under siege, so we cannot help them. The Fajr-5 missiles
have not been shipped from Iran. Its technology has been transferred
and (the missiles are) being produced quickly," Jafari was quoted as
saying by the semiofficial ISNA news agency.
Iran has repeatedly denied it directly supplied Hamas with the Fajr-5.
The ISNA report gave no further details on the level of missile
know-how sent to Gaza or the channels used.
Israel charges that Iran sends weapons, including rockets, to Gaza
through a network of smuggling tunnels under the 15-kilometer (9-mile)
border between Gaza and Egypt.
Iran also backs the anti-Israel faction Hezbollah in Lebanon, which
fired thousands of rockets into Israel during a monthlong 2006 war.
Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, meanwhile, said his country
was "honored" that Iran could help Palestinians with "material and
military aspects." He did not elaborate.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza over the past
week in an operation it says is meant to stop daily rocket salvos by
Gaza militants at Israel.
From: Baghdasarian
November 21, 2012 - 19:12 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran has supplied Hamas in Gaza with the technology
to "quickly" produce longer-range missiles on their own without
needing direct shipments, said a report Wednesday, November 21 that
quoted the head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, AP reported.
The comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari offer some of the clearest
insights on Iran's weapons support for Hamas, whose Iranian-engineered
Fajr-5 missiles have struck near Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during weeklong
battles with Israel.
"Gaza is under siege, so we cannot help them. The Fajr-5 missiles
have not been shipped from Iran. Its technology has been transferred
and (the missiles are) being produced quickly," Jafari was quoted as
saying by the semiofficial ISNA news agency.
Iran has repeatedly denied it directly supplied Hamas with the Fajr-5.
The ISNA report gave no further details on the level of missile
know-how sent to Gaza or the channels used.
Israel charges that Iran sends weapons, including rockets, to Gaza
through a network of smuggling tunnels under the 15-kilometer (9-mile)
border between Gaza and Egypt.
Iran also backs the anti-Israel faction Hezbollah in Lebanon, which
fired thousands of rockets into Israel during a monthlong 2006 war.
Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, meanwhile, said his country
was "honored" that Iran could help Palestinians with "material and
military aspects." He did not elaborate.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza over the past
week in an operation it says is meant to stop daily rocket salvos by
Gaza militants at Israel.
From: Baghdasarian