Former Senior Obama Official: U.S. Allowed Syria Carnage to Save Iran Deal | The Tower

Former Senior Obama Official: U.S. Allowed Syria Carnage to Save Iran Deal | The Tower

THE PROOF: Iranian Soldiers Running The Show In Syria - Business Insider

by Michael Kelley

We already knew that Iran had troops on the ground in Syria last summer and the Islamic Republic  is calling the shots, but new footage recorded by a cameraman attached to the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards details just how much Iran is invested in the civil war.

"If Assad falls, Iran's foreign policy objectives would be constrained. So it's doing everything it can to keep Assad in power, " Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies told BBC, which did an investigation based on the footage.....(CONTINUED)

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Iranian Soldiers Running The Show In Syria - Business Insider

NO SURPRISE HERE: BBC News - Footage emerges of 'Iranians fighting in Syria'

The Syrian opposition has been saying for many months that Iranian forces are backing up, even leading the Syrian Army. This is just further colloboration:
VIDEO LINK: BBC News - Footage emerges of 'Iranians fighting in Syria'

Defected Syrian pilot says he made trips to Russia and Iran to ‘collect cash’ - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

 A Ammon News handout photo supplied by Syrian activists shows the Syrian Air Force Russian-made MiG-21 plane that a pilot landed with at the King Hussein Air Base in northern Jordan on June 21, 2012. (AFP)

Al Arabiya -

A defected Syrian pilot told The Sunday Telegraph that he was part of the Syrian regime’s air fleet to Russia, where he amass money to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. 

The pilot, who asked the Telegraph to identify him as Nazim, said that he and his fellow pilots “flew a cargo plane two or three times a month” to collect funds that were used to allegedly support the regime........

FULL ARTICLE: Defected Syrian pilot says he made trips to Russia and Iran to ‘collect cash’ - Alarabiya.net English |

Death Merchant Iran steps up weapons lifeline to Syria’s Assad: diplomats - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

Iran has significantly stepped up military support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent months. (Reuters)

Reuters, United Nations - Iran has significantly stepped up military support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent months, solidifying its position alongside Russia asthe government's lifeline in an increasingly sectarian civilwar, Western diplomats said.
 
Iranian weapons continue to pour into Syria from Iraq butalso increasingly along other routes, including via Turkey and Lebanon, in violation of a U.N. arms embargo on Iran, Western officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Iraqi and Turkish officials denied the allegations.
 
Iran’s acceleration of support for Assad suggests the Syrian war is entering a new phase in which Iran may be trying to end the battlefield stale mate by redoubling its commitment to Assadand offering Syria’s increasingly isolated government a crucial lifeline, the envoys said...........

FULL ARTICLE: Iran steps up weapons lifeline to Syria’s Assad: diplomats - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page