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| Iran will defend Syria's airspace if Damascus requests |
| 2016-02-15 |
| [Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian air force commander says Iran is prepared to defend Syria's airspace if Damascus calls for it. Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, the commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base, made the remarks during an interview with the Tasnim news agency on Sunday. After praising the government and people of the Arab country for their five-year battle against foreign-backed Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorism, he stressed that any military presence in Syria without the approval of Damascus would end in nothing but "defeat." The remarks were made in the wake of reports that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... were preparing to launch joint military operations on Syrian soil. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Both Riyadh + Ankara are officially denying any plans to mil intervene in Syria. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-15 22:58 |
| #2 cheap talk Iran doesn't have the capacity to do much in that space. Russia on the other hand is doing quite a bit there. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-02-15 08:19 |
| #1 Can the Bammer handle a CHINA + IRAN two-front war??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-15 00:17 |