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Israel on Thursday said it struck all of Iran’s military installations in Syria in retaliation for Iranian forces firing rockets at Israeli positions in the Golan Heights.

The Israeli military said it targeted weapons storage facilities, logistic sites and intelligence centers used by Iranian forces in Syria. None of its warplanes were hit in the overnight operation.

The White House condemned Iran’s attack on the Golan Heights and said it “strongly” supports Israel’s right to “act in self-defense.”

“The Iranian regime’s deployment into Syria of offensive rocket and missile systems aimed at Israel is an unacceptable and highly dangerous development for the entire Middle East,” the White House statement said.

The uptick in tensions comes just days after President Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal — a 2015 agreement signed by world powers that relieved Iran of sanctions in exchange for curbing its nuclear program.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, speaking at a security gathering north of Tel Aviv, said Israel would respond with force to any acts of Iranian belligerence.

“We will not let Iran turn Syria into a forward base against Israel,” he said. “We, of course, struck almost all the Iranian infrastructure in Syria, and they need to remember this arrogance of theirs. If we get rain, they’ll get a flood. I hope that we ended this chapter and that everyone understood.”

An Israeli military spokesman, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, said Iran’s elite Quds Force shot 20 rockets at Israeli military positions in the Golan Heights, but four of the missiles were intercepted and the rest missed their targets.

He said Israeli troops remain on “very high alert.”

“Should there be another Iranian attack, we will be prepared for it,” Conricus said.

Russia, which has backed Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad with military forces since 2015, called for both sides to reduce the tensions.

“This is all very alarming, it causes concern. There should be work to de-escalate the tensions,” Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said, according to the TASS news agency.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow to discuss Syria.

Three people were killed and two wounded in Syria, the country’s military said.

But the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has been monitoring the war in Syria, said at least 23 fighters were killed, including five Syrian soldiers.

It wasn’t immediately clear if any Iranians were killed.

The group said the Israeli attacks struck military outposts for Syrian troops and Iranian-backed militias near Damascus, the capital, and in southern and central Syria.

​With Post wires​

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