In the past four years, the Israeli army has mainly focused on preventing Iran’s “entrenchment in Syria”, according to

Outgoing Israeli military chief, Gadi Eisenkot, said the Israeli army in the past four years mainly focused on preventing Iran’s “entrenchment in Syria.”

Eisenkot, who is due to wrap up his four-year tenure next month, claimed that Tehran’s alleged plan on its permanent military presence in Syria had been endorsed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force.

“The Iranian vision for Syria for the day after [the war]… was to build a force of 100,000 ground troops. There are already 20,000 fighters from Hezbollah, Shiite militias from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and thousands of advisers from Iran”, Eisenkot said.

He claimed that Iran wants to create a “combined ground, aerial, naval and intelligence capability” in order to build up a “line of military positions along the Golan [border]”.

He called the Israeli efforts to contain Iran’s alleged military presence in Syria “the large base of the iceberg, which was hidden from the Israeli public’s eye”.

Source: Sputnik