ALL OUT WAR: Iranian Troops To Conduct Ground Attacks In Syria

Lebanese Hezbollah troops and Iraqis will also join the offensive


by Steve Watson | Infowars.com | October 1, 2015

Iran has dispatched hundreds of ground troops to syria to fight alongside the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

A full scale war is unfolding in Syria, with a ground offensive being planned to coincide with Russian air strikes, according to Lebanese sources.

“The (Russian) air strikes will in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the Syrian army and its allies,” one of the sources told Reuters.

“It is possible that the coming land operations will be focused in the Idlib and Hama countryside,” the source added.

Lebanese Hezbollah troops will also join the Iranian forces, the sources note, as well as Iraqis.

The goal is to retake areas in northwestern Syria that fell to Western backed rebels earlier in the year.

“The vanguard of Iranian ground forces began arriving in Syria: soldiers and officers specifically to participate in this battle. They are not advisors … we mean hundreds with equipment and weapons. They will be followed by more,” the second source said.

The addition of Iranian troops into the fray is sure to rile Israel. Israeli Likud Minister Yuval Steinitz reportedly warned the United States, Russia and other world powers that Israel will not tolerate Iranian forces near its border, the Jerusalem Times reported on Tuesday.

In August it was reported that Israel is preparing for a possible ground invasion of Syria.

The Israelis began large division-scale training in the occupied Golan Heights in mid-August under the pretext ISIS may invade and also citing the presence of Hezbollah fighters in Syria.

Russian airstrikes began in Syria on Wednesday after their parliament approved the military action.

Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, told the media a visit by a Russian General an hour prior to the bombing in Syria was “unprofessional.”

The Russian General informed the U.S. the Russian military would begin bombing in an hour.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that it struck eight Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) targets in Syria, adding that “civilian infrastructure” was avoided during the operations.

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Iran, Hezbollah, Syrian Army Prepare to Launch Offensive Against CIA Proxies

Senator McCain admits Russians targeting CIA mercenaries


by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | October 1, 2015

Backed by Russian air strikes, the Syrian military, including Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah troops, are preparing to take back the Idlib and Hama countryside from the CIA’s jihadist mercenaries.

“The (Russian) air strikes will in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the Syrian army and its allies,” a source in Lebanon told Reuters.

“The vanguard of Iranian ground forces began arriving in Syria: soldiers and officers specifically to participate in this battle. They are not advisors … we mean hundreds with equipment and weapons. They will be followed by more,” the source added.

Iraqis will also participate, the source said.

In May the al-Qaeda aligned jihadist group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, al-Nusra, and Jaish al-Fatah captured the last Syrian government held area in Idlib.

In March Jaish al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest) captured the provincial capital and the following month took Jisr al-Shughur. It also took al-Mastumah, a large military base in the area.

More recently al-Nusra, Ahrar al Sham, Jund al Aqsa, and the Turkistan Islamic Party targeted shiite villages in the Idlib province.

Jaish al-Fatah launched an offensive in July to take neighboring Latakia and Hama provinces. Latakia is home to the al-Assad family. The Tartus province lies south of Latakia. The Russians have a naval facility on the Mediterranean in the province’s capitol city.

Jaish al-Fatah has also fought to take the Sahl al-Ghab, a strategic area that lies between Latakia, Hama and Idlib provinces. Joureen in Sahl al-Ghab is a supply line for the Syrian Army.

Factions involved in the offensive included al-Nusra, al-Haq Brigade, Jund al-Aqsa, al-Sunna Army, the Islamic Ahrar Movement and others.
Russia Targets CIA Proxies

On Wednesday, after Russia conducted air strikes in Syria, the United States said CIA proxy groups were hit.

“U.S. officials said it was unclear if Moscow directly targeted a location held by the CIA-backed fighters in western Syria because of their association with the U.S.’s covert program to fund, arm and train the rebels,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Pentagon did not specify which groups were targeted, nor did it mention the close association between the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF) and Harakat al-Hazm and al-Nusra and the Islamic State.

John McCain, the senator from Arizona, said Russia had in fact targeted CIA mercenaries.

“Their initial strikes were against the individuals and the groups that have been funded and trained by our CIA, in a credible flaunting of any kind of cooperation or effort to conceal what (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s priority is — and that is, of course, to prop up (Syrian President) Bashar Assad,” McCain said Thursday.

The corporate media has reported numerous instances of supposedly “vetted” CIA mercenaries cooperating with ISIS and other jihadist groups:

In May The Wall Street Journal reported SRF had joined al-Qaeda in the Golan.
In July Al Jazeera reported an ISIS leader as saying he purchases weapons from the FSA.
In August 2014 The Washington Post said al-Nusra worked with unnamed CIA-backed rebel groups to capture the Quneitra border crossing with Israel and abduct a large number of Fijian peacekeepers.
Last September Harakat Hazm reportedly fought alongside al-Qaeda in Aleppo, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The same month, the SRF declared a peace truce with the Islamic State and the following month SRF members defected to ISIS.
In November a number of FSA members also defected to the Islamic State and condemned US airstrikes.
In December a German journalist embedded with the Islamic State told France 24 the group receives U.S. arms from the FSA.
Also in December, The New York Times admitted the FSA is under the control of ISIS.
In April, Reuters reported the U.S.-armed FSA is allied with al-Nusra in northern Syria.

The Russians are targeting jihadists in Syria and most are supported directly and indirectly by the United States.

The U.S. will continue to insist the threat in Syria is limited to ISIS and Bashar al-Assad and will argue, despite a large amount of evidence to the contrary, that the proxy war in Syria is a radical Islamist operation and there are virtually no moderate “rebels” involved in the fighting.


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