Reuters Top News @Reuters Iran says Israel will regret Syria air strike http://reut.rs/14LFDsK Retweeted 109 times Collapse Reply Retweet Favorite Buffer More 109RETWEETS 17FAVORITES 6:51 AM - 4 Feb 13 · Details Iran says Israel will regret Syria air strike inShare4 Share this Email Print Related News Assad does not need Iranian fighters: Iranian Foreign Minister 8:17am EST Analysis & Opinion Obama's Afghan test Make allies, not kill lists Related Topics World » Syria » Israel » BEIRUT | Mon Feb 4, 2013 8:17am EST (Reuters) - Iran told Israel on Monday it would regret its air strike against Syria last week, without spelling out whether Iran or its ally planned any military response. "They will regret this recent aggression," Saeed Jalili, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told a news conference in Damascus a day after holding talks there with President Bashar al-Assad. Jalili likened Israel's attack on a military compound north-west of Damascus on Wednesday to previous conflicts including its 34-day war with Lebanon's Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah in 2006, all battles that he said Israel had lived to regret. "Today, too, both the people and the government of Syria are serious regarding the issue. And also the Islamic community is supporting Syria," he said. Jalili said Iran, in its current role as head of the Non-Aligned Movement, would work on Syria's behalf on the international stage in response to the attack. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday the attack on a Syrian arms complex showed Israel was serious about preventing the flow of heavy weapons into Lebanon, appearing to acknowledge for the first time that Israel had carried out the...
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