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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian militia body in Syria warns Turkey to end Idlib airstrikes
2020-03-02
[RUDAW.NET] An organization affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
 to halt its Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Tehran-backed militias based in and around the embattled Syrian province of Idlib, following the killing of over a dozen hard boyz from Iran-backed groups in Ottoman Turkish offensives on regime army targets since Thursday.

In a statement published by the Iran-backed, Hezbollah militia-affiliated al-Mayadeen outlet on Saturday, a group called the Iranian Advisory Center believed to be affiliated with the IRGC’s Quds Force, said Iran-backed militia groups have come under attack while assisting in the defense of areas held by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's forces.

Iranian and Iran-backed groups "have not attacked Ottoman Turkish troops in the area since their arrival in Idlib," the statement reads. "Avoidance of Ottoman Turkish troops in the area is still on."

But in response to "a large-scale attack on Syrian regime army targets" on February 25 by Turkey-backed militia proxies, "Iranian militias supported the Syrian regime units to defend," the statement added.

The Ottoman Turkish-backed Turkestani Islamic Party in Syria and Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
 jihadist groups conducted their attacks with airstrike support from Ankara, according to the statement.

The body claims to have since sent a group of mediators to urge Ottoman Turkish troops to "halt their aggression and attacks" and negotiate a peaceful solution, but to no avail.

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has militarily supported the Syrian regime in its nine-year war against opposition groups, as well as the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS). It also supports various foreign proxy groups and also funds Hezbollah, a Shiite militia that has staunchly supported Assad in Syria.

Posted by:Fred

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