Tuesday - September 18, 2007

When Bad Things Happen to Bad Nations: Iran and Syria

On the heels of the Israeli attack on a Syrian nuclear facility in early September, the world is just finding out that Iranian engineers and Syrian military members were killed in July, when a chemical warhead exploded. Almost makes one believe in karma. 

If the Syrians, with Iranian help, were mounting chemical warheads on Scud missiles, how long before the Syrians transfer that technology to Hezbollah or to those peaceful Palestinians who like to launch Kasam rockets into Israel on a daily basis?

Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.

Syrian and Iranian Presidents, Bashar Assad, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, listen to national anthems at the Ash-Shaeb presidential palace in Damascus, Thursday.

According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a Scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas.

Reports of the accident were circulated at the time; however, no details were released by the Syrian government, and there were no hints of an Iranian connection. 

 

Author: The Machiavellian
Technorati Tags: Syria Iran Chemical weapons
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