BALADI NEWS
Head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency Yossi Cohen said Monday that Iran and its proxy, the Lebanese Hezbollah party, were planning to move parts of their military bases in southern Syria to the North.
Cohen said "Mossad is detecting a trend" in response to Israeli strikes in Syria and that Iran and Hezbollah "are asking to move some bases to northern Syria, a place that they mistakenly think we will have a harder time reaching."
Speaking at a security conference in Israel, Cohen acknowledged that Israel had carried out several strikes against Iranian targets inside Syria.
In an apparent reference to reported Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria early Monday, he said Israel was not interested in a conflict with its neighbor, reported Israeli media.
He stressed that Israel cannot allow Syria to transform into a logistics base to transport weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel had worked covertly and openly for the past four years to prevent the further entrenchment of forces in Syria.
The Iranians will eventually conclude that their efforts in Syria “are not worth it,” he remarked.
In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria that have targeted Iran and Hezbollah, which it calls the biggest threat to its borders.
Source: Asharq Al-Awsat