The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that 3 years ago, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad prevented any Iranian attacks on Israel through Syrian territory in order to ease friction. The Israeli League Al-Quds in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Qasem Soleimani, before his assassination, and it is still active.

The New York Times confirmed last week that Assad prevented the Iranians from responding to Israel about a year ago, but Haaretz reported that this has been in place for three years. According to the American newspaper, “the Syrians do not want to launch an attack on Israel from their own lands, because it threatens to break out into a full-scale war, which will greatly contribute to the destabilization of the situation at a time when the country is weak.” Because of this request, militias linked to Iran launched strikes against US bases in Syria, hoping that this would encourage the United States to pressure Israel to stop its strikes.

And Haaretz notes: “After the assassination of Soleimani in 2020, Assad repeated his instructions to his successor Ismail Qaani,” explaining that “instead of such attacks, Iran, through its loyal militias, resorted to responding to Israeli attacks using drones and rocket-propelled grenades in the direction of Iran”. Al-Tanf base in southern Syria.

Over the years, Israel has launched hundreds of raids against Iranian positions in Syria without a direct response from Iran or even through armed groups formed by Tehran in the unoccupied Golan Heights to work against Israel. The report comes two days after an explosion attributed to Israel targeted Aleppo International Airport in northern Syria and a navigation system used at the Damascus airport.