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Iran Sends "Thousands" Of Troops To Syria For Russian-Backed Assault On Key City
As those who follow Mid-East affairs are acutely aware, the regime in Syria has enjoyed both military and financial support from Iran for the duration of the country’s civil war.
Syria cannot fall to the West if Tehran intends to preserve the regional balance of power and an Iran-friendly Damascus ensures the supply lines remain open between the IRGC and Hezbollah. Lose Syria, and suddenly, the Mid-East tide turns in favor of the Saudis and Qatar and that, clearly, is an unacceptable outcome.
That said, Iran’s role on the ground in Syria has taken some off guard of late. Perhaps it’s the fact that Tehran’s participation on the ground has become more overt even as one would imagine that Iran would be keen to not antagonize the West on the heels of the nuclear deal which has the potential to facilitate the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. The key seems to be Russia’s involvement, which effectively gives Iran’s Syrian ground operations the superpower stamp of approval.
The strategy, as we’ve noted on several occasions of late, is that Russia clears the way with aggressive aerial bombardments and then Iran, operating through either Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias, and/or the IRGC sweeps in on the ground and takes care of whatever anti-regime forces may be left in the wake of the Russian airstrikes.
This has worked well thus far and now apparently, Iran has sent “thousands” of troops to Syria in preparation for an assault on Aleppo. Here’s Reuters:
A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the build-up to a joint operation against insurgents in northwest Syria, and said U.S.-led efforts to fight rebels had failed.
The visit, led by the chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, came as Iranian troops prepared to bolster a Syrian army offensive that two senior officials told Reuters would target rebels in Aleppo.
The attack, which the officials said would be backed by Russian air strikes, underlined the growing involvement in the civil war of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's two main allies, which has alarmed a U.S.-led coalition opposed to the president that is bombing Islamic State militants.
"The international coalition led by America has failed in the fight against terrorism. The cooperation between Syria, Iraq, Iran and Russia has been positive and successful," Boroujerdi was quoted as saying by Iran's state broadcaster IRIB as he arrived at Damascus airport.
The delegation was due to meet Assad, said officials.
Iran has sent thousands of troops into Syria in recent days to bolster the planned ground offensive in Aleppo, the two officials told Reuters.
And a bit more color:
Syria's army along with Iranian and Hezbollah allies will soon launch a ground attack supported by Russian air strikes against insurgents in the Aleppo area, two senior regional officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
Control of Aleppo city and the surrounding province in the area near the Turkish border is divided among the Syrian government, insurgent groups fighting Assad and the Islamic State group that controls some rural areas near the city.
"The big battle preparations in that area are clear," said one of the officials familiar with the plans. "There is a large mobilization of the Syrian army ... elite Hezbollah fighters, and thousands of Iranians who arrived in stages in recent days."
As a reminder, Aleppo is very close to the so-called "ISIS free zone" that the US and Turkey planned to establish months ago. Here's the map:
This means that Russian and Iranian forces will be closing in on a particularly sensitive area of the country as it relates to the Syrian-Turkish border, setting the stage for more tension between Ankara and Moscow and suggesting that the Iran-Russia "nexus" is on the verge of marking yet another key milestone in the effort to restore the regime.
Bear in mind that this has all unfolded in the space of just a few weeks, and we wonder just how long it will be before the assault on Raqqa will begin, because if the ISIS capital were to fall, the end would truly be nigh for anti-regime elements operating in Syria.
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There’s an interesting difference between Sunnis and Shia.
Every time Sunnis (ISIS, “moderate terriss”, Taliban, etc.) blow shit up, they scream Allow ak-Bar, or somepin’ like that.
However, Shia (Syrians, Iranians, sh-Iraqis) do it without a peep.
Is this WHY they hate each other? ;-)
Looney
Russia is killing the good terrorists.....and we're killing the bad terrorists.
Not a perfect plan.....but it should do.
Operation Oatmeal......is a go.
'Operation Oatmeal'. Love it.
Message from Vlad to Obama...
Thanks for the bullets.....it was well packaged....and delivery was super fast.
We won't hesitate to use your services again.
That ammo was intended for the DHS and IRS jack boots damn shame Obama will need to repurchase now.
They've still got about 5 billion rounds.
There's only about 300 million of us.
Not sure how many times they plan on shooting us.....it's obviously more than once.
One thing no one could have forseen. The Gulf States are in negotiation with Israel to buy Iron Dome missile defense systems.
http://atimes.com/2015/10/gulf-states-in-talks-to-buy-iron-dome-from-isr...
If Isis only holds territory in thin spidery lines, how hard can it be to just chop up the lines into bits and then kill every terrorist in the, well, "cell"...
The whole thing is fishy.
When Russia attacks America to bring down the Govt ,I will be on Russia side so any Govt worker will be fair game so they will need the 5 billion rounds to protect thier bunkers from been overrun.
If you are an American, there is a problem with that. Russia does not want you, you betrayed your sleazy assed lying country.
America is truly and profoundly screwed. If they come here, we will have to fight, even if our government and corporations are to blame. At the core, we have allowed it. No quarter for us.
It's true. We are the rubber. We're holding the bag. Our representatives will be long gone.
We deserve the Hell our apathy has created.
Russia has he fingerprints of all .gov
I cannot believe that Russia has any interest in trying to occupy America, they have enough issues with their own country.
Come on, America is a huge land mass and is protected on both sides by great oceans and Russia would have to cross many other countries to get there so for starters the logistics would be terrible.
You have let the propaganda muddle your thinking, it is America that is attacking many many other countries either by force or fomenting troubles.
You make my point. We are the problem, that is why we are screwed. If they came here, if, if, if, was my comment. We deserve to be knocked down some pegs. We can't get out of it.
Haha, at the accuracy that they fire at, they need two clips just to make a fleshwound.
They have to shoot all the toddlers, infants, and dogs, first. Just to be safe.
I know you wanted to say magazines, not clips; FIFY :-)
Don't forget the dogs. One dog takes many bullets if you include collateral kids.
16.6 times each.
Obummer used Amazon Prime to deliver the bullets...
I heard they were using drones now...
So the elite Hezbollah fighters drive Mercedes. Right?
if they can kick the shit out of IDF, fine by me.
It wasnt ammo that they dropped it was just oatmeal. 50tons of oatmeal.
If the next Russian operation is called that way then you know Putin is reading ZH.
Lol.
Soon to be the most popular breakfast item in the Pentagon Cafeteria.
Not to be found in the White House Cafeteria at all.
Soon to be renamed "Freedom grains"
"We oatmealed some folks."
Gawd, I love ZH!
#oatmeallivesmatter
Freedom grain head...
LOL, "Operation Oatmeal"
So, does that make the bad terrorists the raisins or the good ones?
the USA isn't killing any terrorists at all, except when they accidently drop supplies on their heads
I'd love to be a fly on the wall while the brown clown runs around wondering WTF to do...
That presupposes that he views this as a failure. Which he doesn't.
Correct. The only running around he does is while searching for his golf shoes.
And wait for the teleprompter notifications.
Yeah, just you wait until Burn-ie gets in there...
Billary...
Rump...
Shrub III...
It will all be so much better!
I believe the correct phrase shouted out is: "Alloha-snAkbar".
;-)
about as daft as shouting "Geronimo"
It would be kind of funny to hear 'Geronimo!!!!' out of the mouth' of moderaterrorists whilst attacking...
The Syrian city of Aleppo is totally wrecked. 95% of the city has no power. Putin noted the other day that U.S. jets blew up a power plant in Aleppo, which must be one of the last plants functioning in the city. Obama has ordered the military (both U.S. forces and his proxy IS forces) to cleanse Aleppo of Alawites, as a favor to his Saudi war accomplices.
Let's not forget, this area where our traitorous president is making deals with the 9/11 Saudi masterminds is near the site of the Biblical Armageddon.
Yeah, but Saudi masterminds? Saudis told NorAd to stand down? Not credible.
Here's what the Saudis, champions of human rights are up to.
"Mother of Saudi man sentenced to crucifixion begs Obama to intervene US president urged to rescue Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, sentenced to be beheaded and crucified for allegedly attending anti-government protests"
From the often loathsome Guardian.
"Saudi masterminds" ? Can't stop laughing. Bye.
Maybe there are some more masterful than others, like someone with an 80 IQ would stand out in a crowd of folks with a 60 average. Be nice now...
some more masterful than others...
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Congratulations on receiving the coveted 7 / 6 comment award. Couldn't go to a more deserving contributor!
Tyler, tell her what she's won...
Nice get
I didn't know Larry Siliverstein was from Saudi Arabia Amazing how 'Lucky Larry' leased those two money losing towers in NYC for 99 years putting down 14 million dollars just 42 days before 911, then collecting 5.5 Billion dollars after they exploded, er I mean fell down. Is his real name Larry Silverstein Hussein?
Within 250 miles. Crazy shit.
They specialise in destroying power stations in breach of Geneva Conventions to block supplies of clean water, medical care and light. It was done in Basra, Baghdad, Belgrade......Israel has destroyed most power generating facilities in Gaza........and Western media would never comment
Hey when the US and Israel wants to commit Genocide, they go all the way. They are the Exceptional nations after all
I believe the Valley of Armageddon is in southern leenon, near the Israli border.
the biblical armageddon is not a place. the 'mountain of megiddo' doesn't exist as megiddo the town, is just a 'tell' on the PLAIN of megiddo.
something of deeper significance is pictured in the bible and if you read carefully you'll see it's not a war between nations but Gods' war against the nations which will be worldwide. not much room at the literal megiddo for modern armies to operate let alone 'all' the major armies.
megiddo in the bible is just a symbol of the completeness of the destruction of armies that took place there in ancient times. welcome to the real new world order, without all the present governments, big business and false religion.
Prophecy not working after 2000 years? Just change its interpretation! ANY DAY NOW
This atheist finds the mark of the beast and the synagogue of Satan to be frighteningly accurate at least in a poetic sense.
Prophecy not working after 2000 years?...
Not at all. Just remember, the 2nd coming of the Christ will not be televised. No need to archive the event, it will be up close, personal and in living color. Oh, and there will be no "do overs".
jmo.
Speaking of Armageddon the last biblical prophesy to be fulfilled in the literal sense would be the draining of the euphrates river. revelation 16:12 And the sixth Angel poured his vessel over the great river Euphrates, and its waters dried up that the way of the Kings from the East may be prepared. The thing is syria controls the headwaters of the river and in 1981 iraq almost declared war against syria for using too much water and draining the river, so technically this is feasible. Another case in point is the Christian right in the U.S. have a vested interest in fulfilling biblical prophesy to herald in the return of the big jeebus. So these things can become self fulfilling, Drain the river to allow ground forces to cross and done prophesy fulfilled. all the wackadoos will think rapture is near and will abandon their posts. No need to solve the worlds problems jeezus with fix it when he gets here /sarc.
while i agree that the misled 'wackadoos' are capable of anything to support their view including fomenting constant turmoil in the middle east, rev 16:12 isn't literal. in revelation 'waters' signify people or support they give. when ancient cyrus 'dried up' the euphrates he cut off the support or protective waters of babylon allowing for its fall. this sixth bowl is an expression of God's judgement against a modern 'babylon the great' described in revelation and drying up it's waters or support is a precursor to it's downfall. just as ancient babylon was the center of false religion, (almost avery form of religious belief against the bible can trace its roots directly back to babylon) all worldwide false religion with christendon at its head will be destroyed soon as seen by drying up of its memberships.
Scorched earth policy. If the city is taken back then the US and msm will claim Russia did all the damage. Russia should be getting photo's of current conditions into the news to show they are on a mission of rescue for the people.
Raqqa is interesting. It is away from the western and northern areas Russia seems most interested in and moves operations more to the interior. And it would set the stage for retaking the water resources the map seems to indicate ISIS took control of. Will the US have it's proxy blow up dams as part of the scorched earth policy?
Here are your masterminds:
https://mastersofdeception.wordpress.com/
USA declares Iranians "terrorists" and proven "terrorists" from Saudi Arabia "allies". Sunni radicals fly aircraft into buildings in the USA but their sponsors are flown secretly out of the USA before the President even has time to greet his bin Laden business partners at the Carlyle Hotel in NYC.
Saudi Arabia can supply Islamic "judges" to burn people alive in cages, to behead Christians, rape American and other women prisoners, torture and degrade and dismember captives, and the USA simply invites them to destroy Yemen and occupy Bahrain............but Iran is apparently "evil" and Saudi Arabia is "America's friend"
There are still people who believe the Saudis pulled off 9/11???
No, they still believe there were people in Iraq who were involved. Now al Quaeda, ISIS and others are all grouped into one in their minds and they are associated with 911 to them. Any group over there who the govt says are terrorist they accept as fact. They do not even notice how groups go from friendly designation, to moderate to radical to extremist and back. They do not even notice McCain meeting with them, or rather they no longer care.
Not all are that ignorant, they just do not care. If told the right story, even it not believed, they accept obvious mass genocide.
Hey the Bin Ladens were flown out to prevent them from being questioned because it would exonerate Osama. Then the fingers might get pointed at what those 200 Israeli agents were doing living within a blocks of the alledged hijackers. So the Bin Ladens and other Saudis were flown out the next day
Russian air cover allows the Iranians and Hezbollah units to go on a sustained offensive without worrying about being bombed and strafed by the USAF. Otherwise, I don't think they could pull this off. U.S. planes would probably attack a ground offensive, while the MSM would portray the attack as if it was being aimed at ISIS.
The takfiris are Wahabbists, which is an extreme form of Sunni Islam. A parallel would be Baptists as an extreme form of Christianity.
Ha! Close but... A "Free-will" Baptist or a Calvisnist makes an average Baptist look tame.
Quaker oats?
That is just moronic. The day that baptists are burning, beheading, and crucifying others, yeah then that would be a parallel. It is either that or on the flipside, whatever denomination of christianity you consider to be the opposite of baptists is so saintly they can walk on water.
The Mormons went that-a-way. 'Cause of, you know, the massacres and such.
Our social norms are thin, paper thin. Or as Jethro Tull put it, Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day.....peace is precious indeed.
Grace is available to all, but each person must still avail themselves of it. Regardless of the local cheer.
Except that these days Baptists don't grow round killing methodists and eating their hearts. ;)
True, because they fear the retaliatory pancake breakfast the Methodists would hold for them.
Did someone spike your oatmeal this morning?
It's hard to find a parallel. The founder was a Donmeh Jew, under crypsis, allied with the Saudi clan, also of Jewish background, who are doing their best to destroy Islam from the inside.
Everyone who reads Zerohedge knows that all reports from Reuters are simply propaganda. Why would Iran jeopardize the deal with Obama which give them $150 billion just to support Puutie and Assad? Obviously creative reporting. Those Iranian Mullahs represent all the best of the Religion of Peace.
Hey Augustus; The religion of War is located in Israel; you know the one right now whose soldiers are shooting civillians. Of course the civillians have been a bit peeved at having their land stolen so they are acting unfriendly toward the Chosen. Too bad for the Chossen I guess because each day thousands and thousands of Americans are learnign that Israel was behind 911. The mossad killed the plane passengers; read Rebakah Roths' book Methodical Illlusion for more details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdP95oSoOFk
Things are moving far too quickly for the US and it's associates.
The NWO is facing another NWO entirely...
Paradigm Shifts are a bitch...
On one hand you've got your good NWO....and the other hand you've got your bad NWO.
So should we be looking for a moderate NWO , they have to be the good guys right.
please fill out this "moderate NWO" vetting form
Hopefully this will be the end of the whole IS & moderate terrorists I mean "rebels" charade.
I need a chart.
Who are the good guys again?
Russia, Syria, Iraq, many Kurds and Iran. Maybe China.
I thought Valerie Jarrett was the good Iranian?
Sheesh, what do I know...
DaddyO
"one would imagine that Iran would be keen to not antagonize the West on the heels of the nuclear deal which has the potential to facilitate the lifting of crippling economic sanctions."
The Iranians know that Obama is fully committed to it's passage. It doesn't matter what they do now. They could piss on Obama's shoe and he'd still support the deal because it is IMPOSSIBLE for him to backtrack from the position he's taken. And, frankly, if it doesn't pass Iran hasn't lost anything anyway- their situation would be unchanged.
I wonder how hard the Mullahs laugh when Obama brings his weak-ass game and asks them "Pretty please with sugar on top, stop chanting 'death to America' while I work on getting this deal done." I bet they almost fall out of their chairs.
As the US collapse continues, maybe, behind the scenes, what the Irainians are saying about relations with the US is ... "What difference does it make?"
Given Obama's history, The Turks are the ones who are nervous. They appear to be setup for sacrifice on the alter.
I figure at this point we will be bombing South America any day now.
taking down the planes of presidential candidates isn't enough for you? Some people are just never satisfied...
OK so long as Erdogan gets the Mussolini treatment and Ataturk attitude re-surges..
Since all other parties have approved the Iran deal, what does it matter if the US does not?
The Iranians know that they represent the only card the West can play against Russia; hence there is nothing that they can do, short of attack Israel, that would make Obama want to attack them. And if Iran is attacked, there goes 20 millon barrels of oil per day of supply since the persian gulf would be shut down
Any live streams? Which TV channel?
I thought the Tylers had already agreed that Soleimani & the Quds were going to sort matters out.
"[...] and we wonder just how long it will be before the assault on Raqqa will begin, because if the ISIS capital were to fall, the end would truly be nigh for anti-regime elements operating in Syria."
My own thoughts exactly. Raqqa is the key to destroying ISIS. When it's taken, ISIS are history.
Will history repeat with images of helicopters air lifting the failed ISIS back to the israeli border?
“Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.” “Most important, it is understandable that Israel has an interest supporting diplomatically, militarily and operationally Turkey’s and Jordan’s actions against Syria, such as securing tribal alliances with Arab tribes that cross into Syrian territory and are hostile to the Syrian ruling elite.”
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The Russians need to cut ISIS off from Turkey. That will kill the overland route for supplies, recruits and retreat. Then they will drive them east toward Raqqa. ISIS only options will be to flee into Iraq (and more Iranian strength) or south to KSA or possibly Jordan. I don't see Jordan lasting long if they allow ISIS in. KSA could be forced to admit that either they cannot stop ISIS' retreat or they don't want to. Either way is bad for them.
Operation Oatmeal.. *100
If this was an U.S. operation.
Operation
Oatmeal
Patriot
Shield
Spit coffee at "Brown clown". There isn't a fucking thing in that desert that is worth one US serviceman's life. Let the oatmeal fly!
While the reptoids in tel aviv gather to plot an event. Beware.
The Russian and Iranian strategy is smart.....deny IS any regions bordering Turkey where they get alot of their weapons and then work inwards. Let the Kurds secure the border regions.
The US government won't like that at all nor will Erdogan. IS is their pet project.
Turkey has already said it will not allow Kurds to secure border region.
U.S., Turkey Agree to Keep Syrian Kurds Out of Proposed Border Zone (WSJ)Will Russians create naked American pyramids out of the captured?
Will Iranians feed captured America’s soldier rectally?
When does the Turkish DU get introduced into the theatre?
No because the US is exceptional
As united snakes stratigists wait for stool softeners to take effect, and growing disgust, mistrust, and unbelief spread
accross usa, it seems a good time to send money. What are some agencies like doctor's without borders or
non-military groups that can address america's latest screw-up? Anyone?
WTF is Obama doing in Syria? Dropping white Nike sneakers to ISIS? Or care packages for ISIS?
“We have very few specifics which could explain what the US is exactly doing in Syria and why the results of so many combat sorties are so insignificant,”Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian channel NTV. “With, as far as I know, 25,000 sorties they [US-led air campaign] could have smashed the entire [country of] Syria into smithereens,”the minister noted.
Iran lost several high ranked commanders within last several days. Don’t even want to know what’s happening with "normal" soldiers. Syria is getting graveyard for Hezbollah, Iran, potentially Russians and of course tonnes of islamist garbage.
Those thousands won’t be enough to change frontlines in Aleppo. Even after days of Russian bombardment Assadist just reconquerred 2 or 3 villages.
With depleted ammo resources on one side and air superiority on the other several thousand should suffice as half of Aleppo is already in government hands. This is not Stalingrad where the Russians were able to resupply by river.
Assad has air supperiority since day one... But using air force in urban battle is best way to increase rebel army supporters. Assad also controls half of aleppo since one year or so, but didn't make any advances since then. Rebels have anough ammo... Enough for those "thousands" ;)
In other words: you can't simply come to predominantly sunni country with couple of thousands of shia fighters and hope that you can control it.
And how does resupply take place if it is being cut off? That's the new development.
Am I the only one who heard about 50 tonnes of ammo dropped by US in northern Syria? US, Turkey, Saudis etc. are still there, border with Turkey is as transparent as it was, Aleppo isn't besieged (actually Assads forces are almost encircled in the region, not otherwise). So in your opinion Russia is going to hit every truck loaded with ammo, coming from Turkey?
Three weeks and 5 days on ZH. Enough said. Is Tel Aviv just getting a little to close to the action, Davit? Perhaps Zionism is potentially the great loser here. Damn you f---ing assholes and your insanity (Samson anyone?). Despite living on a kibbutz in the 60's I am getting sick and tired of constantly having the world and all of humanity threatened by you and your Saudi bretheren!!!!
the jews will never use the Samson option; why piss off the hosts they feed on? All that wiill happen is that more sympathy will rain down on them and even more money to rebuild and nothing will change.
The Samson option destroys the tribe for a few thousand years. Rebuildign after being attacked and settling more Jews from abroad would set them behind by 10 years max
I am also wondering what the Russians, Iranians and Alawites are planning on 'doing' with the Sunni population of Syria.
Isn't ethnic cleansing the end game here?
This looks like a hard Northern cap on the Sunnis, and a territorial wedge between Turkey and the ISU (Israeli/Saudi/USA) area.
Bad news for the Sunni townsfolk. Maybe the Kingdom can handle a couple of million new Sunni Arab subjects. But I bet they are not as attractive for slave labor as the Filipinos, Indians, Ghanaians etc. that the Saudis are used to holding.
Their tired and need dirt naps!
Syrian forces include Sunni also...
enemy is outside forces mostly wahabi and mercs from very many countries
This particular revolution will not be televised.
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This is what awaits IS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3270438/Incredible-footage-Russi...
That is massive. Nobody walks out of that alive.
-Edit: and of course the complaining is that Russia is using cluster bombs. Who was it again that used them -along with DU- in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Lybia and Afghanistan?
'Carry on Mr Putin' is typical of the vast majority of responses on that Daily Mail article, 'The Americans had their chance' etc etc.
That what you get for reading a tabloid.
What you see is a new piece of russian equipment called a TOR heavy flamethrower launching missles. Gee, Napalm rockets why did'nt we think of that? Got any Marshmallows?
You see the Geneva convention feels that getting burnt to a crisp is is infinitely better and more humane that being blown to bits. lol
your clue should have been that a cluster bomb falls from the sky from a plane.
Yes but that is not really clear from the footage cause it breaks and continues somewhere else. First part shows -to me at least- some missiles being fired that then explode on the ground. Second part could be cluster bombs. Or not. Could be a propaganda piece to accuse Russia of using cluster bombs. Not that the average commenter on DM really cares. Who says it is Syria anyway? Can't make out the distinctive accent when allah snackbar is being shouted, lol.
Sorry I didn't see the second part, does look like cluster (kinda, usually they are more explosive and violent being a bomb) or grad strike hard to tell. Russians have grad and smerch munitions with cassettes full of metal like nails. Lots of doctored compilation type footing out there. Who knows
I don't think the dead liver eaters care either now.
Thanks for the info though. Did not know of the existence of this TOR heavy flamethrower launching missiles thingie :-)
The arrival of the Iranians is great news. Iranians know how to fight Arab rabbles (like the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein ) and win.
The reason why Russia has been successful is that they are closely coordinating their air support with the Syrian army, Hezbollah fighters, Iranian troops. For an update, see: www.rt.com/news/318643-syria-russian-jets-aleppo
Hezbollah is very capable of defending themselves. Just ask Israel. As Eric Draitser has pointed out, the US has never wanted to eliminate ISIS/ISIL/Daesh and related groups, rather they want to “manage” them to destabilize Syria and remove Assad.
And Hezbollah.
Thank god SOMEBODY - who gives a shit if it's Russia - is doing something to at least save the world famous antiquities of Syria, which ISIS has been planning to LEVEL to the ground.
Iran got their ass whipped by Iraq and Iraq is getting their ass whipped by ISIS.
Just for the record :
" Started by Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein in September 1980, the war was marked by indiscriminate ballistic-missile attacks, extensive use of chemical weapons and attacks on third-country oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. Although Iraq was forced on the strategic defensive, Iran was unable to reconstitute effective armored formations for its air force and could not penetrate Iraq’s borders deeply enough to achieve decisive results. The end came in July 1988 with the acceptance UN Resolution 598." (history.com)
As for " Iraq is getting their ass whipped by ISIS" who pulled Iraq to pieces in 2003? Iraq is slowly getting back on its feet by recognising who its enemy is.
Iraq had some help. The US sunk the Iranian Navy.
Standard Disclaimer: You are Jack's wasted life.
I love it. Been here 17 weeks and "23 hours", just to be exact! And you know it all. How convenient, shrimpie!
not so much...
Irag is torn up
Iran is still there, and influence in Iraq
Sounds like Hell, but given the location this is taking place it is not surprising to me.
To George Soros:
Please send more money "soon" otherwise Syria will be looking like East Ukraine in terms of merc body count(s)!
P.S.
You better do it sooner rather than later cause I don't think the algo trading facade's going to keep much longer...
Nice American baseball caps.
Nice American baseball caps....
Booby! Get on your "Mitznefet" and give "those baseball caps" a show they will never forget!
I agree..wonder if the Iranians have a web site where you can purchase one...
I wonder what the CIA USA ISRAEL are planning to blow up now... they are saying "quick... we need another 911.... what can we do?? How about bombing Turkey?? ok... how about bombing UK... ok... France.... ok... Germany...ok... "
Bibi needs to bomb Israel so that he has an excuse to attack Lebanon and Syria... but somehow only Arab Israelis shall die in this terrorist attack...
He can create fictitious jewish Israeli's, hire crisis actors to play the role of grieving relatives, then stage the false flag (say an airplane that is blown out of the sky over the Med)
Funny, Saudi's are using cluster bombs (for realz) in Yemen and no one seems to be bothered about that!
Amazing how fast the balance of power has shifted in the Middle East. Literally overnight. I expect Obama will very shortly do something to completely piss off the Russians and the American people. Stay tuned.
Also, give praise and thanks to Jesus Christ that Putin is such a patient and gracious world leader (and I am being serious here).
Will Bibi just keel over and die at the presence of Iranian troops in Syria or will he do nothing except whine and glare at everyone? Blue-haired prick needs a good whuppin
U would have l loved to hear the conversation that filth "Bibi" had with Putin when he flew to Russia a few weeks ago.
Right now he's glaring at his oatmeal.
HOW are the Irainian ground troops getting there? Is there a massive air supply operation from Iran to Syria? Many cargo planes (Iranian) are flying through the airspace of Northern Iraq?
Iraq has to be onboard for this to be happening.
Plumber's pick-up trucks