Two Israeli researchers with extensive military experience recently published a very alarming report on Iran’s activities in Syria.
The two, Colonel (Res.) Jaques Neriah and Brigade General (Ret.) Shimon Shapira wrote that Soleimani chaired a secret meeting in 2013 in Iran which was also attended by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
During that meeting, a plan was discussed to form a 150,000-strong Shiite force which would eventually heat up the border with Israel on the Golan Heights.
Today, this plan has become reality as Hezbollah has taken control of the area along the Israeli border on the Golan Heights.
The Hezbollah deployment is contrary to a 2018 agreement between Russia and Israel that provided for the creation of an 80-kilometer-wide buffer zone along the Israeli border where no Iran-related forces would be allowed.
The Quds Force and Hezbollah now have bases in various regions in Syria.
Some of them are located in the Suweida province in southern Syria, which is also referred to as Har HaDruzi (Druze Mountain) in Israel.
In 2018 alone, Hezbollah also recruited 3,500 Arabs in southern Syria for the formation of the new force against Israel
Hezbollah commanders, furthermore, command Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army units and the Lebanese terror group has established four bases near the Israeli border.
According to Neriah and Shapira, Hezbollah is now also commanding five Shiite militias in southern Syria which are being prepared for war against Israel.
Since the end of 2018, the Quds Brigade and Hezbollah established radar and eavesdropping posts close to the Israeli border and are gathering information about the movements of the IAF on the Golan Heights.
Ethnic cleansing of southern Syria where the armed Sunni uprising against Assad began in 2011 is another means that must allow Iran to open a front against Israel on the Golan Heights.
Sunni Syrian Arabs who fled their homes during the now eight-year war may not return home unless they convert to the Shiite version of Islam adhered to by the Iranian regime.
Iran also makes use of NGOs that provide humanitarian and financial assistance to the poverty-stricken Syrian population in order to expand their influence over the originally Sunni country.
Hezbollah officials, furthermore, use straw men to purchase land near the Israeli border.
Neriah and Shapiro say that Iran, and not Assad runs the state of Syria, and that the Israeli effort to prevent this had partial results only.
Assad is only a pawn in the hands of Tehran, the Israeli experts said.
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