...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
militias east of Syria's capital Damascus before dawn on Sunday, a war monitor said.
Residents of the Damascus region heard the blasts which came from "the warehouses of pro-Iran militias" in a mountainous area east of the capital, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria.
"We don't know if it was from an air strike or ground operation," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
| Inshallah. God wills it — who are you to question his choice of the instrument executing his will, O observatory head? |
Syria's official news agency SANA said during the night that "the sounds of explosions" had been heard on the outskirts of Damascus.
Four Syrian soldiers and two Iran-backed fighters were killed last Monday in pre-dawn Israeli air strikes near Damascus, the Observatory said at the time, in the latest deadly Israeli air raid to hit war-torn Syria's capital.
The air strikes targeted Syrian regime forces, as well as military positions and weapons depots used by gangs supported by Tehran, the monitor said.
With Iranian as well as Russian support, the government of Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
has clawed back much of the territory it had lost to rebels early in the conflict, which broke out in 2011 and has pulled in foreign powers and global jihadists.
Israel rarely comments on strikes it carries out on targets in Syria, but it has repeatedly said it would not allow its arch foe Iran to expand its footprint there.