The Iranian security chief Ali Akbar Ahmadian stated, according to state media, that a new group will emerge to fight against Israel in Syria after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. "A NEW RESISTANCE IS ARISING"According to the IRNA news agency, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ahmadian, said, "With the Zionist regime's occupation of Syrian territory, a new resistance is arising that will manifest itself in the coming years." In a meeting with the Omani foreign minister, Ahmadian claimed that Iran's anti-Israel resistance axis has not been "weakened" following the fall of Assad, a long-time ally of Tehran, on December 8. HUNDREDS OF AIR STRIKES HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUTSince Assad's fall, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian military facilities, stating that its aim is to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. THEY INITIATED OCCUPATION AFTER ASSADIsraeli forces also occupied strategic positions in a buffer zone patrolled by the UN between Syria and the Golan Heights, which Israel captured during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. This move was described by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a violation of the 1974 ceasefire between the two countries.
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