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Iran commanders reportedly execute Syrian officers
Reports have emerged that Iran has taken over command of the
Latakia-Hama-Idlib battlefront.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565401-iran-commanders-reportedly-execute-syrian-officers
BEIRUT – Iranian commanders overseeing the Assad regime’s fighting
efforts on the frontlines south of Idlib have reportedly executed three
Syrian army officers.
London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi said that the three officers were Sunnis
who were among the regime troops that withdrew from the Mahmbel and
Bsanqoul checkpoints following rebel advances in the southern Idlib
province area on Saturday.
The three officers, who were also accompanied by several soldiers, were
accused deserting their duty and “betraying the homeland,” the daily
reported Sunday.
According to the report, none of the other Syrian officers or soldiers
present at the time were able to prevent the execution as “officers
responsible for military operations in the Jourin area are under the
command of Iranian officers.”
A Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander told the paper that “the regime has
handed over the operations room to Iranian officers and leadership.”
“The recent execution has caused a state of fear and terror among
remaining regime troops,” the FSA commander added, saying he expected
“more defections and more field executions.”
“There are still Sunni soldiers and officers bearing arms in the ranks
of the regime’s army who will receive humiliating treatment during the
coming period.”
Activists in the Latakia region also spoke to the paper about the impact
the Iranian takeover of the operations room has had on morale among
regime troops.
“Morale is very low among regime soldiers; in fact, it has become
non-existent since the Iranian officers took over the operations room,”
according to an activist identifying himself as Abu Said.
“Syrian officers, among them Alawites, have become secondary members,
whose tasks can sometimes be reduced to handing out tea and coffee.”
Iranian command
The reported handover of power to Iranian officers follows the visit
Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani paid to the
Jourin area in late May, after which he announced that a “surprise” was
in the works in Syria.
The Iraqi Kurdish Bas News outlet on Monday reported that major command
changes have been conducted on the Latakia-Hama-Idlib front following
Soleimani’s trip.
A Hama-based media activist said that the Syrian regime’s chief of
operations in the area, General Jamal Younis, had been removed from his
post and replaced by an Iranian general known only by his moniker
Iffari, who set up his headquarters in Jourin.
Sarmad Khalil, an activist and member of the Hama Media Center, said in
press statements that the IRGC’s military operations command is located
in Hama Airbase.
Rebel-IRGC lines stretch from military checkpoints in the town of
Maharda, north of Hama, through the towns of Helfaya, Tel al-Nasiriyah
and Rohbet Khattab to Taybet al-Imam and the international highway
connecting the Hama and Aleppo provinces, according to the activist.
The IRGC has also established a military base on Zein al-Abideen
Mountain north of Hama city, Khalil said.
A top pro-Assad daily in Lebanon said last week that Iran has deployed
troops into northwest Syria in preparation for a counterattack in Idlib.
“During the last [few] days, and through a joint Syrian-Iranian-Iraqi
decision, more than 20,000 Iranian, Iraqi, and Lebanese fighters have
poured into the Idlib area,” As-Safir reported in a dramatic article
published Tuesday.
The report said that the new troops had been sent to the regime’s front
lines in the northern Hama province village of Jourin and areas in the
southern part of the Idlib province, which rebels seized last week
following months of sweeping advances.
AFP later reported that thousands of Iraqi and Iranian fighters have
been deployed to Syria in a bid to secure the capital and recapture the
Idlib province’s Jisr al-Shughur, which lies on a highway leading into
the regime’s coastal stronghold of Lataki
Iranian threat to Alawite villages in Hama province
https://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/syria-iranian-threat-to-alawite-villages-in-hama-province/
Iranian commander Ifari, who is responsible for all military operations
in Hama province, threatens to burn the Alawite villages, mostly Misyfa,
that refuse to send their sons to enrol in SAA and Assad’s militia and
fight against Jaish Al Fath.
Ifari directed at villages and towns in Western Hama t, especially
Masyaf that recently shows anger towardsSAA after the killing of a
number of theirs who were trapped and killed in Jisr Al Shughur
national Hospital, in addition to Alawite officers who called to form
self-defense forces to defend their areas, and stop supporting theregime’s
army after its defeat in Idlib.
Ifari replaced SAA brigadier Jamal Younes after Sulaymani’s visit to
Hama province.
Following field reports, the confrontation lines between the rebels and
the Iranian Revolutionary Guards stretch from Hama north, which begins
near the city Mhardeh military checkpoints, via the town of Halfaya,
TelNasiriya, and the military Rahbat Khattab, Tibat AL Emam, and the
international highway that links Hamaand Aleppo.
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