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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander says its troops in Syria
Members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are in Syria providing non-military assistance and Iran may get involved militarily if Syria comes under attack, its commander said on Sunday.
The statement is the first official acknowledgement from a senior military commander that Iran has a military presence on the ground in Syria where an uprising has left tens of thousands dead since it began 18 months ago.
Western countries and Syrian opposition groups have accused Iran of providing weapons and expertise to Syrian armed forces and have suspected an Iranian military presence inside the country. Iran has denied this.
2 Comments on "Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander says its troops in Syria"
BillT on Sun, 16th Sep 2012 3:40 pm
Are these called “advisors? Shades of Vietnam…
“The U.S. military advisory effort in Vietnam had a modest beginning in September 1950, when the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Vietnam, was established in Saigon. Its mission was to supervise the issuance and employment of $10 million of military equipment to support French legionnaires in their effort to combat Viet Minh forces. By 1953 the amount of U.S. military aid had jumped to over $350 million and was used to replace the badly worn World War II vintage equipment that France, still suffering economically from the devastation of that war, was still using….”
http://olive-drab.com/od_history_vietnam_advisors.php
Perhaps the Iranians are taking a page out of the Empire’s play book?
DC on Sun, 16th Sep 2012 8:02 pm
Q/Western countries and Syrian opposition groups have accused Iran of providing weapons and expertise to Syrian armed forces and have suspected an Iranian military presence inside the country. Iran has denied this.
But the western countries….screw, that, the United States, providing weapons and expertise to the so-called Syrian Free Army(and others), which is neither Sryian, or free, or even an ‘army’ in the operative sense, is totally ok. Pretty easy to see why the US gets so enraged when Russia or Iran or anyone tries to assist the Sryians fighting the US’s Al-CIA-da network. The hypocrisy is breath-taking.