Report: Iran to send 4,000 Revolutionary Guards to bolster Assad’s forces

Al Arabiya ^ | June 16, 2013

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Run silient.
Run deep.

[txrefugee]

The entire world knows that the USA is led by an incompetent poseur. No country is respectful of the military that is being dismantled every day by this president.

[jjotto]

From February of 2012:

http://rt.com/news/syria-iran-cooperation-protests-969/

...The Syrian opposition announced earlier that commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, advises the Syrian authorities on quashing the country’s opposition movement, the Telegraph newspaper reports.

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the Quds Force includes 15,000 elite soldiers, who operated in Iraq and other wars on foreign soil. The Quds is reportedly in charge of training and funding Hezbollah...

From May of 2012:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4234608,00.html

Iran confirmed Sunday that it has, as previously speculated, sent troops to aid President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in his country...

[Salvey]

Practically all of the world’s geopolitical problems either originate with, or are exacerbated by, our evil, low-IQ, incompetent, sociopathic poseur of a “president.”

[rfreedom4u]

How will they get to Syria? Iran has no common border with Syria. They will either have to:

1. Drive through Northern Iraq (Iraq wouldn’t allow it)
2. Fly over Iraq (I doubt/hope Iraq wouldn’t allow that)
3. Sail through the Suez Canal (Egypt may not allow it and if they did Israel would be able to take the out as they will be bottle necked)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. That's 4,000 *more*.

• World exclusive: Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria

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[virgil]

Why not send them through Russia?

[Owl558]

2. Fly over Iraq (I doubt/hope Iraq wouldn’t allow that)

They’ve been flying arms across Iraq for a while now. I imagine this is the likely method of deployment Iran will use.

[Monty22002]

Keeping the meat grinder going in Syria is really good. If anything I hope Hussein gives the fsa *justtt* enough support to keep this going for a long time.

[melsec]

It would be nice to see it happen. I have met with a lot of people from Iran. Those who have a Persian background are smart, cultural, hard working, cool headed. The Arabs are a different matter.

Mel