The FSA has little chance to prevail in this affair, sans air cover.
Interesting. Iran send their goons to support a nominally secular Syrian government that is locked in combat with an Islamist uprising? You can’t make this stuff up!
Likely to backfire, by increasing defections of native Syrian Sunnis from the Syrian army.
I doubt Iran alone can maintain enough men in Syria to hold it for Assad.
This is bad, it gets Iran one step closer to wanting to obliterate Israel.
CAIRO — Egypt has again allowed an Iranian Navy ship to pass the Suez Canal toward Syria.
A senior official said the Egyptian Navy approved the passage of an Iranian ship loaded with weapons to move from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea
The Iranian Navy frigate IS Alvand passes through the Suez Canal at Ismailia, Egypt, on Feb. 22. The frigate, accompanied by the replenishment ship IS Kharg, entered the Suez Canal en route to Syria. /AP
The official said Egypt dismissed a request by the United States to stop the Iranian ship at the canal.
“The Egyptian Navy refused a U.S. request to strike an Iranian ship loaded with weapons that was on its way to Syria through the Suez Canal,” Mohab Mamish, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, said.
In an Aug. 26 interview with an Egyptian television station, Al Hayat, Mamish, replaced as Egyptian Navy commander earlier this month, did not say when the Iranian weapons ship traveled through the canal.
Mamish, a former member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, said he was authorized to make all decisions on the canal, a leading earner of revenue for Egypt.
Mamish, whose remarks were also reported by Egypt’s official daily Al Ahram, said the Egyptian military objected to deployment of U.S. Navy ships at the southern entrance of the canal in January 2011. At the time, President Hosni Mubarak faced massive unrest, which led to his ouster by the military 18 days later.
In the interview, Mamish said the Egyptian Navy has maintained tight control over the canal. The retired vice admiral said no foreign navy could conduct operations in the narrow waterway without Egypt’s approval.
http://www.worldnewstribune.com/2012/08/27/egypt-allows-iranian-warship-through-suez-despite-u-s-objection/
Maybe Syria will soon become a peaceful, agricultural kind of place.
Good going Iran, let the Sunni-Shia wars spread from IRaq and Bahrain. Next, get the Shias in Saudia to arise...