Iranian forces are operating in Syria in support of embattled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, confirms a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guard per the Guardian:
Ismail Gha’ani, the deputy head of Iran’s Quds force, the arm of the Revolutionary Guards tasked with overseas operations, said in an interview with the semi-official Isna news agency: “If the Islamic republic was not present in Syria, the massacre of people would have happened on a much larger scale.”
Isna published the interview at the weekend but subsequently removed it from its website.
It quoted Gha’ani as saying: “Before our presence in Syria, too many people were killed by the opposition but with the physical and non-physical presence of the Islamic republic, big massacres in Syria were prevented.”
