Attack in Syria - 3

The mystery of yesterday's attack on Iranian bases in Syria continues to deepen.  Among the strangest of new is that in Iran, the media is not reporting the attack as hitting Iranians.  Also, they also call the main target a weapons depot.  Since the media in Iran is under total control of the government, one has to wonder why Iran is not admitting that its forces were hit.  Are the Iranians trying to avoid the need to strike back against Israel, the likely source of the attack?  Were the Iranian people told that Israeli missiles struck an Iranian base and killed over 30 soldiers, there would be great pressure for the mullahs to strike back and intensify the battle with the Israelis.  That's a confrontation that would likely not end well for the Iranians in Syria.  Other news sources have also laid the blame for the strike at the USA with missiles supposedly coming from a base in Jordan.  There is no way that America carried out that strike without announcing it afterwards or having the truth leak out. 

There's still no way of telling what will happen next, but Iran seems to steering this towards there being no response right now.