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DEBKA :Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Sacks Gen. Qassem Soleimani From Command Of The Syrian War (Iran's bro
DEBKA ^ | June 26, 2015 AST

Posted on 06/26/2015 10:25:50 PM PDT by drewh

Uproar in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has relieved Gen. Qassem Soleimani,the Al Qods Brigades chief and supreme commander of Iranian Middle East forces, of his Syria command after a series of war debacles. He was left in charge of Iran’s military and intelligence operations in Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon. This is revealed by exclusive Iranian intelligence sources.

Since Soleimani last visited Damascus on June 2, in the aftershock of the historic town of Palmyra’s fall to the Islamic State, the situation of President Bashar Assad and his army has gone from bad to worse. The Iranian general’s bravado in stating then that “In the next few days the world will be pleasantly surprised from what we (the IRGC) working with Syrian military commanders are preparing,” turned out to be empty rhetoric. The thousands of Iranian troops needed to rescue the Assad regime from more routs never materialized. Since then, the Syrian forces have been driven out of more places. Hizballah is not only stymied in its attempts to dislodge Syrian rebel advances in the strategic Qalamoun Mountains, it has failed to prevent the war spilling over into Lebanon. There is strong evidence that the high Iranian command in charge of the Syrian and Lebanese arenas are stuck. These reverses have occurred, our military sources report, owing to Tehran’s failure to foresee five developments:

1. The launching of a combined effort by the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE – among the wealthiest nations in the world – in support of rebel groups fighting Bashar Assad. Their massive injections of military assistance, weapons and financial resources have thrown Iran’s limitation into bold relief.

2. The ineptitude of the Shiite militias mustered by Soleimani in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight Iran’s wars in Syria and Iraq. None of those imported troops met the combat standards required in those arenas and become liabilities rather than assets.

3. Those shortcomings forced Tehran to admit that it had come up short of military manpower to deploy in four ongoing warfronts: Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq. Soleimani took flak for the over-ambitious plans he authored which pulled Iran into military commitments that overtaxed its resources and did not take into account the messy political and military consequences which followed. Above all, he miscalculated the numbers of fighting strength needed on the ground for winning battles in those wars.

4. In the final reckoning, Iran funds has been drained of the strategic reserves that should have been set aside for the contingency of a potential ISIS encroachment of its territory.


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1 posted on 06/26/2015 10:25:50 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Yet ISIS can still bomb mosques in shiite areas in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

2 posted on 06/26/2015 10:30:19 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

looks like the low oil prices are killing the Iran regieme


3 posted on 06/26/2015 10:36:57 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Do you think the Iranians would ever attack the Saudi oilfields to drive up the price of oil?


4 posted on 06/26/2015 10:44:51 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: drewh

Do you think the Iranians would ever attack the Saudi oilfields to drive up the price of oil?


5 posted on 06/26/2015 10:45:08 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: drewh

Maybe Iran should just nuke ISIS?


6 posted on 06/26/2015 10:48:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

I think Kerry and the Saudis have a deal.


7 posted on 06/26/2015 10:55:00 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Why keep posting from the site with no credibility?


8 posted on 06/26/2015 10:56:29 PM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

who else is reporting from inside Iran’s inner circle?


9 posted on 06/27/2015 12:10:42 AM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Not to worry. Obamanukedeal will free up billions and billions for Iran as early as next week.


10 posted on 06/27/2015 12:13:01 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

thats what we should be afraid of. another Obama ‘victory’


11 posted on 06/27/2015 12:34:33 AM PDT by drewh
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

Yes.
Persians hate Arabs.
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.


12 posted on 06/27/2015 5:36:28 AM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: drewh

Assuming that they are not making things up, like 99% of their stories.


13 posted on 06/27/2015 5:52:32 AM PDT by sagar
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14 posted on 06/27/2015 5:53:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
He was left in charge of Iran's military and intelligence operations in Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.
It would be a great time to blow his head off.
15 posted on 06/27/2015 5:53:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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16 posted on 06/27/2015 6:49:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Zuse

Yes.
Persians hate Arabs. ........................ Ya think they are the only ones? The Arabs have the money, they don’t have many real friends. Ask the Kurds what they think of them.


17 posted on 07/06/2015 6:52:08 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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