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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Official: Attack On Syria Is Attack On Iran
2013-01-27
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Issuing Tehran's strongest warning to date, a top Iranian official said Saturday that any attack on Syria would be deemed an attack on Iran, a sign that it will do all it can to protect embattled Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad.
Despoiler of Deraa...
Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made his comments as Syrian troops conducted offensive air raids against rebels and discovered a trio of tunnels they were using to smuggle weapons in their fight to topple Assad.
I'm wondering if this is a prelude to "volunteers" from the Basij or the IRGC showing up to fight in Pencilneck's new "militia." All they have to do is term the aid the Sauds and Qatar are pouring in as "international intervention."
The world has been grappling over how to deal with Syria ever since an uprising against Assad's regime erupted nearly two years ago. But so far, there has been no international intervention on the ground where more than 60,000 people have been killed, according to the U.N.
There won't be an "international intervention." The Russians and the Chinese would be 100 percent against it. NATO don't want it spilling over Syria's borders, hence the Patriots, but they're not going to expend any money on it. The Medes and the Persians would be nothing but a source of additional cannon fodder.

The Syrian revolution was pretty neat when it started, evil against moderately good. Then al-Nusrah showed up and it became evil against moderately good and even more evil. The Nusrah turbans expect to toss Pencilneck, then install themselves as the next iron-fisted rulers. I think the Syrian opposition realizes that's what they intend but they're so involved with their own infighting they're not paying any attention to it, figuring they'll worry about it in the sweet by-and-by.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Right now, by most accounts the number of IRGC [Quds force] in Syria + Lebanon is not high enough to worry Israel + IDF - that will change very quickly iff Iran decides to significantly expand their number.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-27 22:45  

#8  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISRAEL THREATENING TO ATTACK SYRIA IFF REBELS [andor Hezbollah] CAPTURE [Baby Assad's]CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

'Tis a de facto "game-changer" as far as Israel = Tel Aviv is concerned for Israel-vs-Regional-Militant-Groups iff Syria's WMDS + LRBMS Delivery Sys gets captured by NOT-ASSAD.

* RELATED TOPIX > ISRAEL DEPLOYING MISSLES ["Iron Dome" BMDS] AS NETANYAHU SEES ASSAD COLLAPSE.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SAUDI PRINCE: HEAVILY ARM THE SYRIAN REBELS TO FIGHT ASSAD + "NEW TALIBAN" IN SYRIA | [Reuters]SAUDI PRINCE CALLS FOR SYRIAN REBELS TO BE ARMED [AAMS + ATGMS]

ARTIC > PRINCE = "Radical Al-Qaeda forces" have begin entering + setting themselves up in Syria [IIRC, to fight agz both Assad Govt. + Rebels].

Methinks POTUS Bammer + Benji Netanyahu are still gonna have serious "issues" over the removal-vs-non-removal of Baby Assad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-27 22:40  

#7  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISRAEL THREATENING TO ATTACK SYRIA IFF REBELS [andor Hezbollah] CAPTURE [Baby Assad's]CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

'Tis a de facto "game-changer" as far as Israel = Tel Aviv is concerned for Israel-vs-Regional-Militant-Groups iff Syria's WMDS + LRBMS Delivery Sys gets captured by NOT-ASSAD.

* RELATED TOPIX > ISRAEL DEPLOYING MISSLES ["Iron Dome" BMDS] AS NETANYAHU SEES ASSAD COLLAPSE.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SAUDI PRINCE: HEAVILY ARM THE SYRIAN REBELS TO FIGHT ASSAD + "NEW TALIBAN" IN SYRIA | [Reuters]SAUDI PRINCE CALLS FOR SYRIAN REBELS TO BE ARMED [AAMS + ATGMS]

ARTIC > PRINCE = "Radical Al-Qaeda forces" have begin entering + setting themselves up in Syria [IIRC, to fight agz both Assad Govt. + Rebels].

Methinks POTUS Bammer + Benji Netanyahu are still gonna have serious "issues" over the removal-vs-non-removal of Baby Assad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-27 22:40  

#6  Yes, likely in fact.

I still don't have confirmation. The only known 'known' is that someone wanted the consulate removed from Benghazi.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-01-27 20:55  

#5  Risng Iran = Shia Islam effec sees itself, NOT Sunni Saudi Arabia, as the "tip of the spear" in modernizing the entire Islamic World + uplifting same towards Shia/Iran-led, pan-Islamic OWG Caliphate on par, superior, or dominant to all other.

"Mahanist" Rising Iran = "Mahanist" Rising China = desires strategic access to the Mediterranean vee Syrian-Lebanon ports for projection of Trade + espec MilPol Power. HOWEVER IMPERFECT, BOTH IRAN + CHINA HAVE ROUGHLY SIMILAR HISTOIRES' IN MILITARILY CHALLENGING OR OPPOSING STRONGER OR TECH-SUPERIOR POWERS [post-Cold War, 2013 = USA].

Both are employing similar strategies vee the USA
- "Active Defense" or "Strategic Defense".
- Burden on the US-n-only-the-US to prove its case.
- The US-n-only-the-US must unilaterally locally intervene.
- Priority is the defeat or destruction of USN Aircraft Carriers + Escort/Battle Groups, + Amphibs, + at vital tactical or strategic
"chokepoints".
- GREATEST SINGLE ANTI-US WEAPON IS NOT MILITARY OR ECONMIC, BUT POLITICAL-DIPLOMATIC, I.E. PRO-DIPLOMACY/NEGOTIATION POTUS BAMMER + ADMIN.

Thats alleged Anarchist-for-anti-US-OWG/Globalism
POTUS Bammer + Admin.

Widout control or "sole" sovereignty over TAIWAN, there is no "post-US", future "World #1", "Manifest Destiny" for Rising China - WIDOUT NUCWEAPONS TO PAR OR HIGHER WID THE US-WEST = JUDEO-CHRISTIAN/NON-ISLAMIC FIRST WORLD THERE IS SIMIL NO OWG CALIPHATE = "GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIHADIST STATE" FOR RISING SHIA IRAN.

Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-27 19:15  

#4  Few nations want to arm the rebels when the dominant factions are Islamists (it's quite possible the US government found itself doing so, and lost the Benghazi consulate and four of its citizens trying to put a stop to that.)

Yes, likely in fact.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-01-27 15:48  

#3  More likely the Iranian sense that "the world" has no real incentive to topple the Syrian regime. Few nations want to arm the rebels when the dominant factions are Islamists (it's quite possible the US government found itself doing so, and lost the Benghazi consulate and four of its citizens trying to put a stop to that.)

Factor in an international leadership vacuum, where Russia has been the only strong and consistent voice on the stage, and it's no wonder the Iranians are playing the yappy sidekick.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-01-27 15:39  

#2  What is Tehran trying to do? Give the world even more incentive?

:-)
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2013-01-27 09:54  

#1  Any chance of getting paypal buttons for both sides?
(ammo only)
Posted by: Shipman   2013-01-27 03:41  

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