MESOP : FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA – Iran designed missiles Syria uses, says general

12 Nov 2014 – Al Arabiya – Iran built Syria’s missile production factories and designed the missiles that Damascus is now using in the war with its opposition, an Iranian general told state television on Tuesday. “The missile production plants in Syria have been built by Iran and the missiles designed by Iran are being produced there,” General Ali Amir Hajizadeh, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division, told the Iranian state-affiliated Fars News Agency on Tuesday.

Hajizadeh added that Hezbollah, another crucial Assad ally, along with Palestinian resistance groups also receive support and missile expertise from Iran, reported Dubai-based news agency Al-Arabiya. Missile and aerial superiority has been a crucial advantage for the regime in its fight against the rebels. Several of the rebels’ military strategies have focused on capturing regime airports, as well as missile and barrel bomb production sites.