Iran will support Syria 'to the end': military chief

AFP ^ | September 5, 2013

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TEHRAN — Iran will support Syria "until the end" in the face of possible US-led military strikes, the chief of Iran's elite Quds Force unit was quoted Thursday by the media as saying.

Iran is Syria's main regional ally and some analysts believe a wider goal of US President Barack Obama's determination to launch a strike against the Damascus regime is to blunt Tehran's growing regional influence and any consequent threat to Washington ally Israel.

"The aim of the United States is not to protect human rights ... but to destroy the front of resistance (against Israel)," Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani was quoted as saying.

"We will support Syria to the end," he added in a speech to the Assembly of Experts, the body that supervises the work of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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http://live.reuters.com/Event/Syria_9

Iran’s Khamenei warns of U.S. loss over intervention in Syria

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s most powerful authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the United States was using a chemical attack in Syria as a pretext to interfere in the country and warned it would suffer loss from its intervention, Mehr news agency reported on Thursday.

“In the case of Syria, the chemical attack is a pretext and they say they want to get involved because of humanitarian issues. America has made a mistake in Syria and will certainly suffer loss,” Khamenei told a meeting of the Assembly of Experts, a state body.

[Old Yeller]

Hussein doesn’t GAS about Israel.

[americanbychoice3]

I firmly believe that we will lose a ship from an anti- ship missile fired from Syria,donated by Iran.
What then.......................?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Call for assistance from the Rooskie cruiser sailing the Med...

[ZX12R]

I firmly believe that we will lose a ship from an anti- ship missile fired from Syria,donated by Iran. What then.......................?

As much as I hate to think this way, I can't help it, because Obama is not just another president from a party I disagree with. He is a liar that rivals the devil himself, anti-american, evil, arrogant, and a traitor. I truly believe that he is purposefully destroying our country and our standing in the world. Obama represents the darkness that can be found in any ancient story of downfall.

If it weren't for our brave and gallant soldiers and sailors being on those ships, I'd be wanting to see this excursion by Obama, as a very costly and embarrassing defeat.