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Monday, August 25, 2014
IRGC Vows to Speed up Arming West Bank in Response to Israel's Spying

IRGC Vows to Speed up Arming West Bank in Response to Israel's Spying
Operation
Mon Aug 25, 2014 3:11
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930603000845

TEHRAN (FNA - Fars News Agency)- Senior Iranian military officials announced
on Monday that they will accelerate arming the Palestinians in the West Bank
in response to the recent aggression made by an Israeli spy drone which was
downed before it could reach Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in Central
Iran.

"We will accelerate arming the West Bank and we think that we are entitled
to give any response (to the recent aggression) which we deem appropriate,"
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said on Monday, elaborating on the
IRGC's possible response to Israel's recent aggression against Iran.

"The Armed Forces, including the IRGC and the Army, are fully prepared to
trace and intercept (hostile flying objects) and if such moves are repeated,
the aggressors will receive our crushing response," he warned.

The IRGC Aerospace Force shot down an Israeli spy drone near Natanz nuclear
enrichment facility in the Central parts of Iran on Sunday.

"A pilotless Israeli spy plane was shot down after it was traced and
intercepted by the IRGC Aerospace Force," a statement by the IRGC's Public
Relations Department announced yesterday.

According to the statement, the Israeli pilotless aircraft was a
radar-evading, stealth drone with the mission to spy on Iran's enrichment
activities by flying over Natanz nuclear enrichment plant.

The IRGC also pointed out in its statement that the Israeli hostile aircraft
has been targeted by a surface-to-air missile.

"This mischievous attempt once again made the adventurous nature of the
Zionist regime more evident and added another black page to the dark record
of this fake and warmongering regime, which is full of crimes and
wickedness," the statement added.

The IRGC further warned that it "preserves the right of response and
retaliation for itself".

Later on Sunday Director of the IRGC's Public Relations Department General
Ramezan Sharif told FNA that some of the parts of the downed aircraft are
working, "and our experts are studying the information and intelligence of
these parts".
"We are now analyzing the information of this plane," he added.

Gen. Sharif further mentioned that Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh will soon reveal more details on the
spy drone and the way it has been hunted down by his forces.

Then on Monday, Gen. Hajizadeh said the Israeli pilotless aircraft was a
Hermes-type drone.

"The downed spy drone is Hermes and made in Israel," Gen. Hajizadeh said
earlier today.

He said the operational range of Hermes drones is 800 kilometers, adding
that the aircraft can fly 1,600 kilometers by refueling once.

The General said parts of the aircraft have burnt out after it was targeted
by the ground-to-air missiles of the IRGC Aerospace Force and after its fuel
tank blast, yet "some parts of this drone are intact and we are now
analyzing the information and intel of these parts".

Elaborating on the details of the down Israeli aircraft, the commander
further stated that the drone, which is 5.5 meters wide in wings, is
equipped with two cameras which can take high-quality photos.

"There was no prior information available about the aircraft and the only
one of this type had been downed in Syria, but this one is more advanced,"
General Hajizadeh said.

The Iranian officials had also earlier underscored the necessity for arming
the Palestinians in the West Bank, saying that the move would lead to
Israel's collapse.

"The continued war in Gaza will accelerate arming the West Bank and
annihilation of the occupiers," Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed
Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri said in Tehran on Sunday.

"The holy Quds occupiers' fear from arming the people and the resistance
movement in the West Bank shows how deeply Tel Aviv is vulnerable to the
start of a new phase of (Palestinians') fight and resistance," he added.

Jazzayeri said during the past decade and after the Zionist regime's defeats
in the 33-day, 8-day and 22-day wars in Lebanon and Gaza and the recent war
against the Palestinians, the world public opinion has become aware of this
bitter reality that the usurper Israeli regime is a cancerous tumor.

His remarks came after Ayatollah Khamenei strongly condemned the recent
Israeli attacks on the Gaza people, and underlined that Palestinians,
including those in the West Bank, should continue their armed struggle
against Tel Aviv.

"We believe the West Bank, too, should be armed just like Gaza and those who
are interested in the fate of the Palestinians must work in this respect so
that the pains and miseries of the Palestinian people will be decreased due
to their mighty hands and the weakness of the Zionist enemy," he underlined
in July.
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