Report claims Iran will send 4,000 soldiers to aid Assad’s forces in Syria
Free Syrian Army fighters fired their rifles during clashes with Syrian regime soldiers in central Aleppo on Sunday. Reuters
The British daily The Independent reported on Sunday that according to unnamed pro-Iranian sources that have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic’s security, 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards will be sent to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad’s fight against opposition forces.
The report further mentioned that Iran is fully committed to preserving Assad’s regime.
The sources also confirmed that Iran has considered opening a front against Israel, The Independent’s Robert Fisk wrote.
The Independent also revealed that, “America’s alliance now includes the wealthiest states of the Arab Gulf, between Egypt and Morocco, as well as Jordan” while “its enemies include the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Alawite Shiite regime in Damascus and, of course, Iran” and Iraq.
However, the daily considered that final proof of the use of sarin gas by either side in Syria remains “almost as nebulous as President George W. Bush’s claim that Saddam’s Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.”
According to The Independent, America has thrown its military power behind Syria’s Sunni because they are now losing the war against Assad.
The Syrian regime’s victory in recapturing the strategic al-Qusayr, at the cost of Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah’s lives as well as those of regime forces, has thrown the Syrian revolution into turmoil, threatening to humiliate American and its allies demands for Assad to abandon power, The Independent reported.
The Persian state is Syria’s strongest ally in the region, and has said its Revolutionary Guard force has top-ranking officers in Damascus providing advice. Iran has long been accused of arming and funding the suppression of the popular uprising against Assad, who belongs to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, by providing weapons and money.
Moreover, an aide to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ali Akbar Velayati,warned after Israeli warplanes bombed Damascus last January, that any attack on Syria would be considered an attack on the Islamic Republic.
It is worth mentioning that Free Syrian Army fighters announced last August that theykidnapped 48 Iranians plus an Afghan interpreter. They were current and formermembers of a 150-strong groups sent by Iran for reconnaissance on the ground.
At that time, Iran appealed to Turkey and Qatar for help in securing the release of the hostages claiming pilgrims were visiting the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a Shiite pilgrimage site in the southeastern suburbs of Damascus.
Sending Iranian troops to the Syrian regime is not something new, whereas in April, Al-Rai, a well-known Arabic newspaper, said according to an unnamed Iranian source that Iran is willing to send hundreds of thousands of its men to Syria to defend Assad’s government and its resistant role if the West continues to support armed rebels.
source: All Voices / saleh 1966
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