weapons and ammunition supplies during thinks eight-month massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators, intelligence says he is running out of critcat items, hence the ammunition air bridge, loading planes from tehran international airport and flying with unsuspecting passengers to damascus where planes taxi to a military facility for unloading. it is a last-ditch effort by the iranians to cover their tracks as turkey recently intercepted a number of arms shipments using iranian cargo planes and since banned it from its airspace. there are about seven of these flights a week that head from tehran into damascus. we can tell you, jon, it is not just a couple of crates of ammunition they are offloading. from first-hand accounts passed to us by these intelligence sources we are now learning it is taking an hour and a half to two hours for them to unload these planes of all the weapons coming in there to syria. jon, back to you. jon: iran helping prop up bashar assad s regime?
send these weapons in to keep president assad in power. syria s powerful air force and army are among the most well-equipped in middle east with russian fighter jets, attack helicopters and tanks. president bashar assad is prepared to use them all against his own people to stay in power. fox news has learned that iran and its revolutionary guard are going to great lengths to help. you can identify the iranian involvement in a negative manner in any conflict, almost any conflict in the middle east. reporter: israeli minister for strategic affairs says the iranians are desperately trying to keep assad in power because he provides a crucial link to hamas and hezbollah. as assad plows through weapons and ammunition supplies during his eight-month massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators intelligence says he is running out of critical items. hence the ammunition air bridge, loading planes from tehran s international