Iranian defense minister : Attack on Syria shortens Israel's life

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi strongly condemned a recent Israeli airstrike on Syria, and said the Zionist regime has decreased its life span through on such acts. "The inhuman acts and adventurism of the Zionist regime in the region will strengthen the waves of anti-Zionism in the region and will shorten the life of this fake regime," Vahidi said on Sunday. Explosions shook Damascus early on Sunday and Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military research center on the outskirts of the capital. Vahidi said that the Zionist regime's attack on Syria which was staged after a US green light disclosed the hired terrorists and their supporters have relations with Israel. He expressed concern over the Zionist regime's "evil acts" against the region's security, and said, "Such desperate moves are not a sign of power and might but they show the regime's desperateness and confusion in dealing with the regional developments." The blasts occurred a day after an Israeli official said Tel Aviv had carried out an air strike targeting a consignment of missiles in Syria. The research center hit on Sunday was also targeted by Israel in January. "The new Israeli attack is an attempt to raise the morale of the terrorist groups which have been reeling from strikes by our noble army," Syrian television said, referring to recent offensives by President Bashar al-Assad's forces against rebels. There was no immediate comment from Israeli officials on Sunday's explosions. Late in January, the Syrian Army said in a statement that two people were killed and five others injured in an Israeli air strike on a scientific center in Jamraya, 25 kilometers (15 miles) Northwest of the capital Damascus.