US prohibits flight of Iranian missiles to Syria
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July 15: Three days after the war began, a source tipped off U.S. intelligence about an imminent shipment of missiles from Iran to Hezbollah.
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July 19: A spy satellite photographed Iranian crews loading three missile launchers and eight crates, each normally used to carry a Chinese-designed C-802 Noor missile, aboard a transport plane at Mehrabad air base near Tehran. Israel says Hezbollah fired a C-802, a precision-guided anti-ship cruise missile, at an Israeli warship off Lebanon's coast on July 14.
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July 20: The Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane left for Damascus, but Iraqi air-traffic controllers denied it permission to enter Iraq's airspace. The Iranian flight crew then requested permission to fly over Turkey. Turkish controllers granted permission — but only if the plane would land for an inspection. The plane returned to Tehran, where the military cargo was unloaded.
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July 22: The plane flew humanitarian aid to Damascus after stopping for inspection in Turkey.
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Originally Posted by tw
Israel expected to drive out Hezbollah in two weeks. Massive military equipment from that airport and carried south was not going to resupply Hezbollah.
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Riiight, because there are no Hezbollah in Beirut, so nobody would be available to transfer the weapons to trucks.
Closer to the coastal war zone: Damascus or Beirut?
Well maybe they only had aluminum tubes in those crates.