Image copyright RIA Novosti US sources claim that 4 Russian cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea on targets in Syria, fell on the territory of Iran.
It does not specify, caused whether any damage, and where exactly on Iranian territory fell missiles.
According to Reuters, the White House refused to officially comment on the information obtained from by a representative of the US authorities, who asked not to be identified his name.
The US State Department declined confirmed by this report, which appeared in the American media.
The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major-General Igor Konashenkov rejected the message of the fall of Russian cruise missiles to Iran.
“Unlike CNN en we do not talk, citing anonymous sources, and show launches of our rockets and affected their goals almost in real time,” – said Konashenkov.
“I can not say anything, but any professional in this field knows that in carrying out such operations, always fixed the target image before and after the impact. In addition, over Syria clock running our group of unmanned aerial vehicles, “- said the representative of the Defense Ministry.
The Iranian news agency Irna confirmed that on Wednesday unknown object actually fell in the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan, which is on the way span Russian cruise missiles.
However, the conservative Iranian media hastened to carry messages about the incident on Iran missiles to the “psychological US campaign against Moscow”.
“Since then, as Russia launched a military operation in Syria, the Western media and officials speak with attacks against Moscow” – stated associated with the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution news agency Fars.
On Wednesday, Russia announced the launch of 26 cruise missiles at targets in the north and north-west Syria, while Russian commanders again emphasized that all of the outstanding missiles hit the target.
Meanwhile, NATO leaders reaffirmed that it was ready to fulfill the obligation to protect its allies in the light of “escalation” of the Russian military action in Syria.
Moscow, in turn, denies accusations of the West in that it supposedly strikes mainly on the opponents of the Assad regime, and insisted that her blows struck infrastructure “Islamic state” and other militants.
According to the Chief of Staff of the Syrian army, General Ali Abdullah Ayub, the Russian bombardment eased IG, allowing the army to start “big attack” in order to win back the enemy captured their towns and villages.
Now the heavy fighting are in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Latakia, where, in particular, act Adventure group “Dzhabhat en Nusra” associated with “Al-Qaeda”.
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