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Syria Transferring Advanced Weapons to Hizbullah
(Ynet News) Amnon Meranda - "Syria is handing over to Hizbullah components that it would not dare hand over before," the head of the IDF Military Intelligence research division, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. Baidatz said Hizbullah "attempts to carry out a revenge attack for [slain commander Imad] Mugniyah's death, especially against Israeli targets abroad....Simultaneously, it continues to build up its strength for a confrontation against Israel, deploys its members broadly throughout south Lebanon but also deeper, and accumulates advanced weapons - long-range missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-tank missiles - with Iran's and Syria's assistance." Baidatz also said that hopes for an imminent collapse of the ayatollah regime in Iran are premature. "The potential for something taking place within the Iranian population exists, but there's a great distance between the riots we saw and the regime's collapse," he said. "The Iranian regime is not about to collapse."