Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is due to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in Moscow later on Thursday to address Iran’s alleged increasing military presence in Syria, according to the Times of Israel.
Lieberman tweeted that “the primary focus of the defense establishment is preventing the entrenchment of Iran and its proxies in Syria.”
The Lieberman-Shoigu talks come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during which the two men specifically discussed a proposed US-Russian-Jordanian agreement on the deployment of forces in southern Syria.
Netanyahu, for his part, reportedly insisted that the agreement should stipulate a total withdrawal of alleged Iranian forces from southern Syria.
Source: Sputnik
