{"id":43077,"date":"2017-08-29T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43077"},"modified":"2017-08-29T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:59:00","slug":"iran-building-missile-factories-in-syria-and-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/iran-building-missile-factories-in-syria-and-lebanon.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran building missile factories in Syria and Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran building missile factories in Syria and Lebanon<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Iran building missile factories in Syria and Lebanon:- Israel’s prime minister has said Iran is building sites in Syria and Lebanon to produce precision-guided missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of turning Syria into a “base of military entrenchment as part of its declared goal to eradicate Israel”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran’s forces are supporting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s war and it backs Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Netanyahu’s comments came as he held talks with UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Guterres is on his first visit to the region since taking office in January.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr Netanyahu gave no details about the sites Iran was allegedly building to manufacture missiles, but he warned “this is something Israel cannot accept”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, the Israeli satellite imagery company ImageSat International published photographs it said appeared to confirm a report by a Syrian pro-opposition newspaper that a missile factory was under construction in north-western Syria under Iranian oversight.<\/span><\/p>\n

ImageSat International said the facility in Wadi Jahannam, near the Mediterranean coastal town of Baniyas, bore a close resemblance to a missile factory near Tehran.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was no comment from Iran, which calls for the Jewish state’s eradication.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Netanyahu also pressed Mr Guterres on the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, Unifil, which Israel alleges has failed to prevent Hezbollah building up its supply of weapons since they fought a war in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Guterres promised to “do everything in my capacity” to ensure Unifil fulfilled its obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I understand the security concerns of Israel and I repeat that the idea or the intention or the will to destroy the state of Israel is something totally unacceptable from my perspective,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unifil’s mandate is up for renewal at the end of the month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin urged Mr Guterres to work to end what he called “the discrimination against Israel in some branches” of the UN.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Guterres said the UN would “always be very frank in the dialogue with the State of Israel”, but also “very committed to make sure that anti-Semitism doesn’t prevail and that equality in the treatment of all states is fully respected”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Guterres will meet Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in the West Bank on Tuesday, and will travel to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-41074830<\/span><\/p>\n

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