While on a visit to Syria on Monday, Iran's National Security Council Head, Saeed Jalili said that Israel will regret its aggression towards Syria and also stated that the Muslim world supported Syria's Government.
It was at a news conference in Damascus that Jalili told reporters, “Just as it regretted its aggressions after the 33-day, 22-day and eight-day wars, today the Zionist entity will regret the aggression it launched against Syria.”
This came one day after Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak said while in Germany at a security conference, that the attack that was carried out on January 30th is “another proof that when we say something we mean it. We say that we don’t think it should be allowable to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon to Hezbollah from Syria when Assad falls.” Although the Israeli government hasn’t officially claimed responsibility for the attack, Barak’s words are a clea indication that they did so. Israel reportedly hit a convoy shipment of weapons that were headed to Hezbollah.
Concerns that high end weapons such as chemical and biological as well as sophisticated airti-aircraft missiles might fall into the hands of groups such as Hezbollah has plagued the Israel government for the past 22 months that the conflict in Syria, Israel’s northern neighbor has been continueing.
Although Turkey has worked toward the ouster of Syria’s President Assad, they came out criticizing Israel for their January attack. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan states that Israel engaged in state terror while Israel’s supporters nurture their wrongdoings. Erdogan told reporters, “Those who have from the very beginning looked in the wrong direction and who have nourished and raised Israel like a spoiled child should always expect such things from Israel.”