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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 Irans 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 Irans 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 Palmyras fall to the Islamic State, the situation of President Bashar Assad and his army has gone from bad to worse. The Iranian generals 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 Tehrans 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 Irans limitation into bold relief.
2. The ineptitude of the Shiite militias mustered by Soleimani in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight Irans 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.
TOPICS: Egypt; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
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posted on
06/26/2015 10:25:50 PM PDT
by
drewh
To: drewh
Yet ISIS can still bomb mosques in shiite areas in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
To: Vince Ferrer
looks like the low oil prices are killing the Iran regieme
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posted on
06/26/2015 10:36:57 PM PDT
by
drewh
To: drewh
Do you think the Iranians would ever attack the Saudi oilfields to drive up the price of oil?
To: drewh
Do you think the Iranians would ever attack the Saudi oilfields to drive up the price of oil?
To: drewh
Maybe Iran should just nuke ISIS?
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posted on
06/26/2015 10:48:27 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: pleasenotcalifornia
I think Kerry and the Saudis have a deal.
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posted on
06/26/2015 10:55:00 PM PDT
by
drewh
To: drewh
Why keep posting from the site with no credibility?
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posted on
06/26/2015 10:56:29 PM PDT
by
sagar
To: sagar
who else is reporting from inside Iran’s inner circle?
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posted on
06/27/2015 12:10:42 AM PDT
by
drewh
To: drewh
Not to worry. Obamanukedeal will free up billions and billions for Iran as early as next week.
To: Organic Panic
thats what we should be afraid of. another Obama ‘victory’
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posted on
06/27/2015 12:34:33 AM PDT
by
drewh
To: pleasenotcalifornia
Yes.
Persians hate Arabs.
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
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posted on
06/27/2015 5:36:28 AM PDT
by
Zuse
(I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
To: drewh
Assuming that they are not making things up, like 99% of their stories.
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posted on
06/27/2015 5:52:32 AM PDT
by
sagar
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posted on
06/27/2015 5:53:26 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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.
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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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- GOP lawmaker: US strategy on Iran is 'totally incoherent' [2015]
- Iran deploys 15,000 troops to support Assad in Syria [2015]
- Qods Force commander Soleimani reportedly spotted in Anbar province [2015]
- US support for Iranian-backed Shiite militias 'should not alarm us,' General Allen says [2015]
- Iran adviser says US has 'no will' to fight Islamic State [2015]
- Obama to Israel: I have your back -- Humor(?) [2015]
- The Mullahs' Expanding Empire [2015]
- There's No Doubt Which Side Obama is on, And It's Not America's (Hint: it's Iran) [2015]
- Time to re-evaluate the peace process [2015]
- Iranian commander: Today Iraq and Lebanon, tomorrow Jordan [2015]
- Iraqi offensive to dislodge Islamic State from Tikrit appears to stall [2015]
- Iranian-backed Shiite militias lead Iraq's fight to retake Tikrit [2015]
- Iran Is Beating America to the Punch in Iraq [2015]
- Iranian-backed Shiite militias lead Iraq's fight to retake Tikrit [2015]
- Iraqi offensive to retake Tikrit underway [2015]
- Hezbollah TV: Reported IAF strike in Syria could be 'costly' [2015]
- Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Soleimani seriously injured in Iraq by ISIS suicide squad [2015]
- ISIS kills Iranian elite al Qods unit commander in Iraq, reports deaths of 555 Iranian officers [2015]
- Obama's gift for Israel and Mid East: Funding for a new Iraqi army dominated by Iran's Rev Guards [2015]
- Obama's 2015 gift for Israel and Mid East: Funding for a new Iraqi army [2015]
- The Obama-Khamenei alliance [2014]
- Unamed Pentagon Official: The President is lying to America [2014]
- what obama offers against isis vs. what churchill offered against the nazis [2014]
- Khamenei approves cooperation with US forces battling IS [2014]
- Report: Iran Approves Joint Military Action With US Against IS [2014]
- U.S. preparing for dialogue with Iran on Iraq security --report [2014]
- What difference do Benghazi, Iran and Iraq make now? [2014]
- How many planes in a modern USAF "wing"? Original Syria strike was to include two B-52 wings [2014]
- This round of the undeclared Iranian-Israeli war -- the Jihad missile offensive -- continues [2014]
- Iranian General: US Pursuing Diplomacy Because They Cannot Defeat Us Militarily [2014]
- Iranians Chant Death to America and to Israel [2013]
- Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria (threatens O's family) [2013]
- Iran threatens rape of Obama daughters [2013]
- Iran will support Syria 'to the end': military chief [2013]
- U.S. Mosques (Wahhabis) [2013]
- Iran, Hizballah Setting Up 'Terror Squads' To Perpetuate Syrian War Post Assad [2012]
- Next 9/11: Iran's death squad is here [2012]
- Iranian Officers Reshape Assad's Shabbiha Militia Into a Second Al-Qods (50,000-60,000 strong) [2012]
- Hamas Signs Binding Military Commitment to Iran-Led War On Israel (axis of evil update) [2012]
- Suspected Iranian Blew Off His Own Leg In A Botched Terror Attack In Bangkok [2012]
- Iran Quds marching into Syria to ail Assad [2012]
- Report: Iranian Special Forces Are Marching Into Syria [2012]
- Report: Iran Quds Forces March into Syria [2012]
- West has new, hardline martyr-in-waiting to fear Suleimani, [2011]
- Social Networks & The Online Jihad [2011]
- Leading US lawmaker warns of Iran 'collision course' (Fein Swine Wagging the Dog) [2011]
- Iran 'most significant' threat to world: Canada PM [2011]
- Meet a main man in Iran's fight with the United States [2008]
- Iran's role rises as Iraq peace broker [2008]
- Casey says results in Iraq won't be fast [2007]
- World Terrorism: News, History and Research Of A Changing World #6 Disinformation, Inc. [2006]
- Iranian Revolutionary Guards occupy Iraq [task is to spread Islamic Revolution] [2004]
- Iranian Alert -- November 20, 2003 -- IRAN LIVE THREAD [2003]
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posted on
06/27/2015 6:49:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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.
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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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