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Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion

Monday, October 5, 2015 13:53
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TMR Editor’s Note:
That Russia, China, Iran and Iraq would form a countevailing military force against the Anglo-America Axis in Syria seems to have throttled the US-led coalition.  The ongoing Russian airstrikes are not only softening up the clandestine partners of the USA – ISIS, ISIL and IS — the real terrorist groups appear to be on the brink of total collapse.  Russian weapons seem to hurt much more than American ones!

Not only are all the strategically placed ISIS military depots, hidden arsenals and hardened installations being systematically destroyed by Russian airstrikes, supply lines are being cut off.  In so doing the overarching plan to establish the Greater Israel has run into a bit of a problem.  As China’s Air Force gets ready to join the fray, the IS terror network supported by the USA will soon have even more warplanes to dodge.

On Cue, Israel Suddenly Claims To Uncover “First Suspected ISIS Cell”  

As if right on cue, Benjamin Netanyahu just announced that an ISIS terror cell had been discovered in Israel proper.  How’s that for perfect timing, even after the Islamic State has practically pretended that Irsael did not even exist for all these hell-raising months of non-stop terrorist activity?!  

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The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion

ZeroHedge.com

On Thursday, in “Mid-East Coup: As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions While Saudis Panic”, we attempted to cut through all of the Western and Russian media propaganda on the way to describing what Moscow’s involvement in Syria actually portends for the global balance of power. Here are a few excerpts that summarize what’s taking shape in the Middle East:

 

Putin looks to have viewed this as the ultimate geopolitical win-win. That is, Russia gets to i) expand its influence in the Middle East in defiance of Washington and its allies, a move that also helps to protect Russian energy interests and preserves the Mediterranean port at Tartus, and ii) support its allies in Tehran and Damascus thus preserving the counterbalance to the US-Saudi-Qatar alliance. 

 

Meanwhile, Iran gets to enjoy the support of the Russian military juggernaut on the way to protecting the delicate regional nexus that is the source of Tehran’s Mid-East influence. It is absolutely critical for Iran to keep Assad in power, as the loss of Syria to the West would effectively cut the supply line between Iran and Hezbollah.

 

It would be difficult to overstate the significance of what appears to be going on here. This is nothing short of a Middle Eastern coup, as Iran looks to displace Saudi Arabia as the regional power broker and as Russia looks to supplant the US as the superpower puppet master. 

In short, the Pentagon’s contention that Russia and Iran have formed a Mid-East “nexus” isn’t akin to the Bush administration’s hollow, largely bogus attempt to demonize America’s foreign policy critics in the eyes of the public by identifying an “axis of evil.” Rather, the Pentagon’s assessment was an attempt to come to grips with a very real effort on the part of Moscow and Tehran to tip the scales in the Mid-East away from Riyadh and Washington.

Solidifying the Assad regime in Syria serves to shore up Hezbollah and presents Tehran with an opportunity to assert itself in the name of combatting terror. The latter point there is critical. The West has long contended that Iran is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror, and the Pentagon has variously accused the Quds Force of orchestrating attacks on US soldiers in Iraq after cooperation between Washington and Tehran broke down in the wake of Bush’s “axis of evil” comment.

Indeed, Iran was accused of masterminding a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador at a Washington DC restaurant in 2011.

Now, the tables have turned. It is the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar who stand accused of sponsoring Sunni extremists and it is Iran, and specifically the Revolutionary Guard, that gets to play hero.

Of course this would be largely impossible without Moscow’s stamp of superpower approval. The optics around the P5+1 nuclear deal were making it difficult for Tehran to be too public in its efforts to bolster Assad. That doesn’t mean Tehran’s support for the regime in Syria hasn’t been well documented for years, it simply means that Iran needed to observe some semblance of caution, lest its role in Syria should end up torpedoing the nuclear negotiations. Now that Moscow is officially involved, that caution is no longer obligatory and Iran is now moving to support Russian airstrikes with an outright ground incursion (just as we’ve been saying for weeks). Here’s WSJ:

 

Iran is expanding its already sizable role in Syria’s multisided war in the wake of Russia’s airstrikes, despite the risk of antagonizing the U.S. and its Persian Gulf allies who want to push aside President Bashar al-Assad.

 

Politicians in the region close to Tehran as well as analysts who have been closely following its role in Syria say a decision has been made, in close coordination with the Russians and the Assad regime, to increase the number of fighters on the ground through Iran’s network of local and foreign proxies.

The support also could involve more Iranian commanders, military advisers and expert fighters usually assigned to these units, these people said.

 

Wiam Wahhab, a former Lebanese minister allied to Iran and Mr. Assad, stressed that Iran wouldn’t be dispatching troops in the conventional sense. Instead, they were likely to be officers and advisers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, he said.

 

“I know there is a major battle upon us and everything needed for this battle will be made available,” said Mr. Wahhab, who has some members from his own political party fighting in Syria alongside the regime. “There is a plan to carry out offensive operations in more than one spot.”

 

Experts believe Iran has some 7,000 IRGC members and Iranian paramilitary volunteers operating in Syria already.

 

Separate from the regular army, the IRGC was founded in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution as an ideological “people’s army” reporting directly to the supreme leader, Iran’s top decision maker.

 

The more than 100,000-strong force controls a vast military, economic and security power structure in Iran and is in charge of proxies across the region. Its paramilitary organization, the Basij, was the lead force in the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in 2009.

 

Since late 2012 Iran has played a lead role in organizing, training and funding local pro-regime militias in Syria, many of them members of Mr. Assad’s Alawite minority, a branch of Shiite Islam. Experts believe they number between 150,000 and 190,000—possibly more than what remains of Syria’s conventional army.

 

What’s more, some experts estimate 20,000 Shiite foreign fighters are on the ground, backed by both Shiite Iran and its main proxy in the region, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah.

 

About 5,000 of them are new arrivals from Iraq in July and August alone, said Phillip Smyth, a researcher at the University of Maryland. He said this figure was compiled through his own contacts with some of these fighters, flight data between Baghdad and Damascus as well as social media postings. “It looks like it was timed out to coincide with the Russian move,”Mr. Smyth said.

Yes, it certainly does “look like” that, and it wasn’t hard to see this coming. Here’s another excerpt from our recent analysis:

 
 

Back in June, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimaini, visited a town north of Latakia on the frontlines of Syria’s protracted civil war. Following that visit, he promised that Tehran and Damascus were set to unveil a new strategy that would “surprise the world.” 

 

Just a little over a month later, Soleimani – in violation of a UN travel ban – visited Russia and held meetings with The Kremlin.

Make no mistake, this is shaping up to be the most spectacular US foreign policy debacle since Vietnam – and we don’t think that’s an exaggeration.

The US, in conjunction with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, attempted to train and support Sunni extremists to overthrow the Assad regime. Some of those Sunni extremists ended up going crazy and declaring a Medeival caliphate putting the Pentagon and Langley in the hilarious position of being forced to classify al-Qaeda as “moderate.” The situation spun out of control leading to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and when Washington finally decided to try and find real “moderates” to help contain the Frankenstein monster the CIA had created in ISIS (there were of course numerous other CIA efforts to arm and train anti-Assad fighters, see below for the fate of the most “successful” of those groups), the effort ended up being a complete embarrassment that culminated with the admission that only “four or five” remained and just days after that admission, those “four or five” were car jacked by al-Qaeda in what was perhaps the most under-reported piece of foreign policy comedy in history.

Meanwhile, Iran sensed an epic opportunity to capitalize on Washington’s incompetence. Tehran then sent its most powerful general to Russia where a pitch was made to upend the Mid-East balance of power. The Kremlin loved the idea because after all, Moscow is stinging from Western economic sanctions and Vladimir Putin is keen on showing the West that, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russia isn’t set to back down. Thanks to the fact that the US chose extremists as its weapon of choice in Syria, Russia gets to frame its involvement as a “war on terror” and thanks to Russia’s involvement, Iran gets to safely broadcast its military support for Assad just weeks after the nuclear deal was struck. Now, Russian airstrikes have debilitated the only group of CIA-backed fighters that had actually proven to be somewhat effective and Iran and Hezbollah are preparing a massive ground invasion under cover of Russian air support. Worse still, the entire on-the-ground effort is being coordinated by the Iranian general who is public enemy number one in Western intelligence circles and he’s effectively operating at the behest of Putin, the man that Western media paints as the most dangerous person on the planet.

As incompetent as the US has proven to be throughout the entire debacle, it’s still difficult to imagine that Washington, Riyadh, London, Doha, and Jerusalem are going to take this laying down and on that note, we close with our assessment from Thursday:

 
 

If Russia ends up bolstering Iran’s position in Syria (by expanding Hezbollah’s influence and capabilities) and if the Russian air force effectively takes control of Iraq thus allowing Iran to exert a greater influence over the government in Baghdad, the fragile balance of power that has existed in the region will be turned on its head and in the event this plays out, one should not expect Washington, Riyadh, Jerusalem, and London to simply go gentle into that good night.

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  • There are no less than 7 PROXY ARMIES in the Middle East. Russia and China are the only nations that do not have a PROXY ARMY and they are “man enough” to declare their intentions and then follow through.

    Everybody has an incentive for something. Israel and Saudi Arabia are actually very close behind closed doors. Read the book by Wayne Madsen called “The Sword and the Star”. Both want to create an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Israel through Syria. Israel is importing way too much oil currently. Additionally, Israel want to be the ENERGY SUPPLIER OF EUROPE and build a natural gas pipeline through Syria and then through Turkey. This may be why Turkey allows porous borders and ISIS to flourish. Look up the TAMAR and LEVIATHAN huge natural gas reserves discovered in the Med.

    All of these economic incentives has created a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. The United Nations should get the countries that are behind the PROXY ARMY ISIS, Al Nusra, “moderate rebels”, Tikrit rebels to PAY COMPLETELY for the cost of the nearly 1 million refugees. Once, this happens you will be amazed how quickly these PROXY ARMIES will vanish into thin air.

    Of course we expect Donald Trump to come up with this solution.

    • Yep, just follow the money and America is the attack dog for the Jews but lately the dog isn’t doing as much.

      Ukraine and Afghanistan are about similar issues.

      • Yep you got “It” right.

  • The last time these turds fought anyone . . . Saddam kicked their asses and We kicked Saddam’s ass big time . . . twice. The Iranian’s are better at kidnapping and blowing up planes. However, I’m all for these SOBs going after IS as long as they go home afterward, but they won’t. They head to Israel next.

    • In John 8:42 …Jesus told them(Jews), “If God were your Father, you would love me.After all, I am here, and I came from God. I din’t come on my own. Instead, God sent me.43Why don’t you understand the language I use? Is it because you can’t understand the words I use?44 You come from your father, the devil, and you desire to do what you father want you to do. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He has never been truthful. He doesn’t know what the truth is, Whenever he tell a lie , he’s doing what comes naturally to him…God divorce the Jews and removed the Ark of the Covenant from them in 587 BC whit the destruction of Jerusalem. God send his son Jesus to redeem the Jews and they crucified Him.

  • agree

  • Time is short, open your eyes and open your heart, accept Christ as your lord and savior, repent and help bring the lost to Jesus Yashua….. TIME IS short! God bless!

  • As if right on cue, Benjamin Netanyahu just announced that an ISIS cell had been discovered in Israel proper

    I think they are called AIPAC in the USA. However we already knew that much, How is Vlad going to deal with those or does he have a Trump card coming up.

  • Unless Israel does something drastic, Russia, China and Iran will control the Middle East. By “drastic”, I mean nuclear.

  • All roads now lead to conflict, both domestic and global!

    More on the agenda here……

    /global-unrest/2015/09/have-the-useless-thinkers-sealed-our-fate-2468834.html

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  • That is until the nuclear false flag attacks make there appearnce…. Or some other false flag attack with the same purpose.

    These are definitely interesting times. But i really do think syria is going to be the next country to be carpet bombed into the stoneage by a westren led force.

    I honestly do thinks so. Wait a minute how do i even know this?

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