Iran IRGC Quds Force leader Qasim Soleimani with Iraqi Shi'i militia commanders, reportedly in Aleppo yesterday: pic.twitter.com/fSZBjOHXJ3
— Christopher Anzalone (@IbnSiqilli) November 10, 2015
Adam Rawnsley, Daily Beast: Inside Iran’s Secret War in Syria
The Revolutionary Guards reach deep in their fight to save Assad.
Iran’s covert operations chief Qassem Soleimani is back in Syria and beaming for the cameras according to photos of the selfie-prone Quds Force commander released this week. But it’s not all smiles for the troops in Syria under his command.
Iran has now become the ground army fighting to save its embattled ally Bashar al-Assad, while Russia has become his air force. And while two conventional militaries ranged, by land and by air, against a consortium of insurgencies ought to be faring well, in the last month, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been hemorrhaging casualties. So far, they’ve lost third lieutenants all the way up to generals—and the deaths are starting to pull back the curtain on just whose boots are on the ground in Syria.
The Quds Force, the covert operations arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been in charge of Iranian support for the Assad regime since the very beginning. And it has lost men over the years as the protests against the regime escalated into full scale civil war.
WNU Editor: This Iranian involvement is starting to show results .... Russia, Iran, and Syria Are Teaming Up to Break an Islamic State Siege (Vice News)
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