IRGC places rocket launchers in civilian houses in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) brought on Monday rocket launchers from Iraqi territories and stationed them in the houses of civilians they seized days before, following the recent airstrikes on posts of the Iranian-backed militias in Deir ez-Zor Governorate , eastern Syria.
A military source within the IRGC told North Press correspondent that the IRGC seized two houses, belonging to the civilian Ayyash al-Thani, located on the banks of the Euphrates River in the village of Tayyba in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and stationed rocket launchers inside.
The source who preferred to remain unnamed for security reasons, said the IRGC set up rocket launchers in the houses of civilians in the villages of al-Tabiyyah Jazeerah and Marrat in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
He also added that a Russian patrol prevented the IRGC from placing a rocket launcher in a house in the town of Harabesh due to its proximity to a headquarters of the Russian forces and the Russian-backed Fifth Corps.
On Monday morning, Tasnim News Agency, a semi-official Iranian agency, claimed that ‘the Resistance’ targeted the US base in the al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor with 15 rockets in response to US airstrikes on trucks near the Syrian-Iraqi border.