This is interesting..Syria is an ally of Iran with its Hezbollah influence but ISIS is separate. Does Iran or even Russia get involved if Syrian regime is highly threatened from ISIS?
Is Obama and McCain still arming ISIS?
Syria’s not an ally of Iran, Assad is a client of Iran. His head would have been on a pole long ago if Iran hadn’t made direct intervention.
The dismantling of every regime in the Middle East other than Iran’s is Iran’s current goal; the mullahcracy wants there to be just one power in the Middle East, and nuclear weapons are part of that goal. The mullahs have stated that they want to destroy the West, and want control of the oil supply. They are also jihadist, and support jihad all over the world; they are the single largest supporter of jihad, not excluding Qatar.
Russia supports Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but they are rivals for influence in Syria and Egypt. Morsi’s regime ouster was carried out by Egyptians, but with financial help from Saudi Arabia. Morsi had allied Egypt with Iran and Qatar, and Assad of Syria rejoiced over Morsi’s removal. Assad’s main prop, Iran, condemned it. Had he not been removed, Egypt would be well on the way to disintegration by now.
Much was made around here about the possibility that al-Sisi’s gov’t might do a military deal with Russia, but there was no way that was going to happen. Even if Morsi had had more time to ruin Egypt, the most likely outcome would have been multiplayer civil war.
We give a lot of credit (cough cough) to Obama for his effectiveness at undermining US allies and foreign policy, and we should be patient to see if he manages to jettison Egypt, but the fact is, there’s a major shift going on in alliances in the Middle East. Obama’s goal is to support Islamofascism, and the most coherent choice is Iran. Iran has managed to keep its ethnic divisions from turning into armed conflict, other than the insurgent Kurds operating close to the border.
ISIS was and is bankrolled by Qatar, which is and has been a closet ally of Iran; Qatar’s previous clients in the Syrian civil war are fighting each other and ISIS; ISIS recruits out of Eurabia, and Turkey’s easy border with the EU makes Turkey the preferred route of ingress for those recruits.
ISIS doesn’t get any aid from the US, and never has. It has however captured vehicles and weapons from the crackerjack Iraqi army, which mostly turned tail and abandoned everything. That equipment is US made.