Syria Army: 'Enemy' Missiles Strike Two Bases; Iranians Among Dozens Reportedly

[ScumBunny]

Syria army

The Syrian army said 'enemy' rocket attacks struck military bases belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Syrian state TV reported. A report on a Syrian newspaper facebook page attributes the attack to the U.S. and Britain. Media outlets affiliated with the Syrian opposition claim 38 government soldiers were killed in the strike in Hama, with an additional 57 wounded. 
A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said Sunday's attack had targeted a warehouse for missiles and killed 26 people, mostly Iranians and Iraqis. 

[Hellhammer]

Update:

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Irans-leader-warns-Era-of-hit-and-run-attacks-has-ended-553112/amp?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&__twitter_impression=true

[ScumBunny]

Holy crap. This is serious.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Britain but monitors Syria through contacts there, said that the attacks on Sunday had killed at least 26 people, many of them Iranians.
The strikes hit munitions warehouses at the 47th Brigade military base near Hama that Iran and its proxies used, destroying ground-to-ground missiles and causing large explosions, the observatory said. Another attack struck the Neirab military air base near Aleppo.
An official from a regional alliance that includes Iran, Syria and Hezbollah confirmed that the strikes near Hama had hit a storage facility on the base and said they had destroyed 200 missiles and killed 16 people, including 11 Iranians. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/middleeast/strikes-syria-iran-israel.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront

[ScumBunny]

Edit: Yeah. Pretty fucking serious.

Following urgent cabinet meeting, Netanyahu to reveal 'new intel..

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will issue a statement Monday at 8 PM on a significant development regarding the nuclear agreement with Iran.
The security cabinet convened on Monday following the airstrike in Syria Sunday night. The session was unscheduled, and ministers were told that it would focus on "developments" regarding the Iran nuclear deal.

Things are apparently serious enough that all opposition parties have withdrawn their no confidence votes due to "the security situation".

[FrostyZippo]

Well shit.

How much will things escalate from here, then?

[Firgof Umbra]

As far as either side is allowed to escalate before someone steps in. With Trump more or less not caring about the region as more than a PR prop, I'd say it could go pretty damn worryingly far.

[yssarbeN]

Al Manar news channel and website is affiliated with Hezbollah, not Hamas

[joshthesmith]

Pretty sure Russia warned repercussions if such a thing were to happen again, I wonder if they will follow through?

Sanctions? Attacking navy? What could they actually do

[OvB]

De-escalate in Korea, escalate in the middle East.

[BuffaloHops]

One step forward, two steps backward...