Israeli ambassador: Iran, rebels should repel from southern Syria

MOSCOW – Israel’s envoy to Russia pronounced on Saturday Iranian-backed Hezbollah units and Shi’ite Muslim rebels should be immediately cold from Syria’s southern de-escalation zone, Russia’s Interfax news group reported.

“We cite to speak about a doing of opposite agreements on a zones of de-escalation, in a case, in a south on a limit with Israel,” Interfax quoted Ambassador Harry Koren as saying.

“Specifically, any participation of Iranian units, Hezbollah and Shi’ite rebels should immediately be curtailed.”

So distant there has been no central response from Moscow.