Report: Iran Sent Hezbollah GPS Components to Turn Rockets into Precision Missiles
IsraelDefense
| 21/10/2018
Hezbollah fighter holding an Iranian-made anti-aircraft missile on the border with Israel (Archive photo: AP)
Fox News reported on Friday that Iran has been increasing its shipments of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah, including Global Positioning System (GPS) components to make “simple” rockets into precision guided-missiles.
Citing American and western intelligence sources, the report said one of the Iranian flights arrived in Lebanon last Tuesday.
“Iran’s Fars Air Qeshm flight number QFZ-9950 departed Tehran International Airport on Tuesday… Later in the day, the Boeing 747 jet touched down in Syria’s capital Damascus before continuing on to Beirut... On Wednesday evening, the Iranian cargo plane departed Beirut for Doha, Qatar […] and returned to Iran’s capital Thursday…”
According to the report, western intelligence sources said the Iranian cargo plane carried weapons components, including GPS devices to make precision-guided weapons in Iranian factories inside Lebanon.
Speaking before the UN General Assembly last September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared photos of what he said were three Hezbollah “secret sites” near Beirut’s international airport, locations where the GPS components from Tehran were being assembled to turn the rockets into precision-guided missiles capable of striking deep inside Israel “within an accuracy of 10 meters.”
Western sources told Fox News the weapons components from last week’s chartered 747 fight from Tehran were bound for these Hezbollah secret sites near the Beirut airport to target Israel in the future.
Hezbollah fighter holding an Iranian-made anti-aircraft missile on the border with Israel (Archive photo: AP)
Fox News reported on Friday that Iran has been increasing its shipments of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah, including Global Positioning System (GPS) components to make “simple” rockets into precision guided-missiles.
Citing American and western intelligence sources, the report said one of the Iranian flights arrived in Lebanon last Tuesday.
“Iran’s Fars Air Qeshm flight number QFZ-9950 departed Tehran International Airport on Tuesday… Later in the day, the Boeing 747 jet touched down in Syria’s capital Damascus before continuing on to Beirut... On Wednesday evening, the Iranian cargo plane departed Beirut for Doha, Qatar […] and returned to Iran’s capital Thursday…”
According to the report, western intelligence sources said the Iranian cargo plane carried weapons components, including GPS devices to make precision-guided weapons in Iranian factories inside Lebanon.
Speaking before the UN General Assembly last September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared photos of what he said were three Hezbollah “secret sites” near Beirut’s international airport, locations where the GPS components from Tehran were being assembled to turn the rockets into precision-guided missiles capable of striking deep inside Israel “within an accuracy of 10 meters.”
Western sources told Fox News the weapons components from last week’s chartered 747 fight from Tehran were bound for these Hezbollah secret sites near the Beirut airport to target Israel in the future.
