Iran sending more support troops to prop up its Syrian puppet
Image via WikipediaU.S. officials say Iran is dispatching increasing numbers of trainers and advisers — including members of its elite Quds Force — into Syria to help crush anti-government demonstrations that are threatening to topple Iran’s most important ally in the region.I have seen reports indicating that many of the snipers used to kill protesters were Iranian. There have also been reports of Farsi speaking troops suppressing opposition groups. While they have been brutal and have killed over a thousand people, they have not been able to effectively restore fear in the population. The people are still in an uprising against the despots controlling the Damascus entity.
The influx of Iranian manpower is adding to a steady stream of aid from Tehran that includes not only weapons and riot gear but also sophisticated surveillance equipment that is helping Syrian authorities track down opponents through their Facebook and Twitter accounts, the sources said. Iranian-assisted computer surveillance is believed to have led to the arrests of hundreds of Syrians seized from their homes in recent weeks.
The United States and its allies long have accused Iran of supporting repressive or violent regimes in the region, including Syria’s government, the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Many previous reports, mostly provided by Western officials, have described Iranian technical help in providing Syria with riot helmets, batons and other implements of crowd control during 10 weeks of demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad.
The new assertions — provided by two U.S. officials and a diplomat from an allied nation, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive intelligence — are clearly aimed at suggesting deepening involvement of Iranian military personnel in Syria’s brutal crackdown against anti-Assad demonstrators.There was no response on Friday to requests for comment left with the Syrian Embassy and Iranian interests section in Washington.
In the account provided by the diplomat and the U.S. officials, the Iranian military trainers were being brought to Damascus to instruct Syrians in techniques Iran used against the nation’s “Green Movement’’ in 2009, the diplomat said. The Iranians were brutally effective in crushing those protests.
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It is an indication of just how unpopular and weak the Damascus regime has become that they need the help of a bunch of Islamic religious bigots from Iran to prop them up. It is also another example of the cost of the failure of the Obama administration to take advantage of the uprising in Iran and Syria. Obama seems adrift from reality with no strategy to deal with the uprisings.
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