Iran-Syria

r, chemical, and biological installations and uranium-enrichment plants in Iran, such that the attack would also include Syria and Lebanon.” In the same article, Al-Siyassa reported that a “Syrian military source told the Syrian opposition in London that an Iranian military delegation specializing in missiles had accompanied the two deliveries to Syria, in order to oversee the deployment of the missiles in the various regions in Lebanon.”

The newspaper also quoted the source as saying that Iranian-Syrian missile cooperation is “the closest cooperation in the history of the two countries’ strategic relations, since Iranian scientists working on developing the Shihab missiles in Tehran had gone to Syria at the beginning of the year [2004] to participate in the development of missile artillery based on the same source on which Iran relies – that is, North Korea.”