Prime Minister of Israel expressed concern about expanding Iran’s position in Syria

Almaty. August 24. Silkroadnews - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed concern over the expansion of Iran’s position in Syria, New Zeland Herald reported.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Russia on Wednesday to voice concern about Iran's efforts to expand its foothold in Syria”, the report said on Thursday.
According to B. Netanyahu, the growing presence of Iran in Syria “threatens Israel and others”.
“Iran is making an escalated effort to base itself militarily in Syria. That presents a danger to Israel, the Middle East and in my estimation, the entire world. Iran is already in advance stages of the taking over process of Iraq and Yemen, and in practice already controls Lebanon”, the agency quoted him saying.
It is reported that Russia and Iran supported the Syrian President Bashar Assad during the civil war and helped his army to regain key positions. At the same time, Moscow maintained friendly relations with Israel and established contacts between the military to prevent confrontations in Syria.
“We are all in the immense international effort defeating Daesh (the Islamic State group) and that is a welcome thing, but what is not welcome is that Iran enters the areas which Daesh leaves. We don’t forget for a moment that Iran continues every day to threaten Israel with destruction … we will defend ourselves with all means against this threat”, B. Netanyahu said.
According to publication, after three-hour talks, B. Netanyahu stated he “expressed to President Putin very clear things about our position on this matter and the fact that it is not acceptable to us”.
“I can say regarding past meetings with President Putin that every conversation like this served Israel’s security and Israel’s interests, and I believe Russian interests as well. Based on this conversation today, I think I can say the same things about it”, agency quoted B. Netanyahu saying.
In his turn, V. Putin said he welcomed the effective mechanism of cooperation between Russia and Israel, yet did not mention Iran.
The publication reminds, Israel opposed the conclusion of a nuclear agreement reached in 2015 between Iran and the P5+1 and has long opposed Iran’s support for various military groups in the region.