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Eight Iranians Killed in Syria
2015-10-24
[AnNahar] Eight Iranians, two of them Revolutionary Guards forces, have been killed in Syria in recent days after Tehran increased its advisory missions to help Damascus, a guards front man said Friday.

"Two guards forces, Abdollah Bagheri and Amin Karimi, were killed yesterday and today on a mission in Syria," General Ramezan Sharif was quoted by Fars news agency as saying.

Bagheri, 33, was former president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad's personal bodyguard and was killed in the northern city of Aleppo.

General Sharif said five or six volunteers were also killed, according to the Youth Journalist Club, a state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
website.

General Sharif also rejected rumors on social media that 15 Iranians were killed recently in Syria.

Shiite Iran is a key ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
, standing by him since an uprising against his regime broke out in 2011.

Iran provides him with financial aid and military advisers against a range of opposing forces in a civil war that has that has killed more than 250,000 and displaced millions.

Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said this week that Tehran has increased the number of its military advisers in Syria.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  We should figure out a way to take a bunch of them out AND make it look like the ISIS loonies did it, #4 Frank. :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2015-10-24 21:34  

#4  We should be taking more out - without telling His Highness and Iranian Toolâ„¢ Barack
Posted by: Frank G   2015-10-24 20:11  

#3  "Eight Iranians Killed in Syria"

It's a start . . . .
Posted by: Barbara   2015-10-24 19:39  

#2  Bagheri, 33, was former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's personal bodyguard and was killed in the northern city of Aleppo.

So, why would somebody close to Ahmadinejad gets sent to "Eastern Front"? For that mater, we don't hear much about Ahmadinejad lately. You don't suppose?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-10-24 17:45  

#1  I expect Barb to retire to Bermuda shortly.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-10-24 17:21  

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