The Algemeiner reports: As tensions between the US and Iran escalate in Syria, concern is growing in Israel that the Tehran regime is pressing ahead with its goal of carving out a land corridor stretching through Iraq and Syria to the border with the Jewish state, a leading expert on the region said on Tuesday.
Jonathan Spyer — a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center (GLORIA) in Israel who has reported extensively from Syria — told The Algemeiner that Iran’s ultimate goal was to “complete a contiguous corridor from Iran itself via Iraq and Syria to Lebanon and the border with Israel.”
The latest flashpoint for US forces in the region came on Tuesday. A US F-15E fighter downed an armed Iranian drone near Al-Tanf in Syria, where the US is training Syrian rebels fighting against ISIS. The area is perilously close to territory controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian and Russian allies, and has been the site of armed skirmishes over the last month between Assad’s troops and US-allied forces.
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