Iranian Fighters Posing As Pilgrims Among Group Captured By Syrian Rebels, US Officials Confirm -- FOX News
Many of the 48 Iranian men captured in Syria on August 4 who claimed to be religious pilgrims are in fact active-duty Iranian Revolutionary Guard members, multiple U.S. officials tell Fox News.
Members of the Free Syrian Army captured the group while they traveled on a bus in Damascus.
According to these officials, top members of the Iranian government have reached out to President Bashar Assad to help secure their release. The Iranians say these men were on a Shiite pilgrimage visiting the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a holy Shiite site in the suburbs of Damascus.
Syria's state television claimed the men were captured by an "armed terrorist group."
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My Comment: As I had mentioned a few weeks ago when this story first broke out .... 48 Iranian men showing up in the middle of a civil war and claiming that they were on a pilgrimage did not pass the 'smell test'. Now we know that U.S. officials are in agreement with this assessment.
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