In recent months the Iranian regime’s media have published reports indicating heavy losses in Syria.
The clerical regime in Iran has considerably ramped up its criminal dispatch of forces to Syria amassing tens of thousands of its Revolutionary Guards and non-Iranian mercenaries around Aleppo to cruelly slaughter the deprived people of villages, townships and towns in this region in tandem with the brutal bombings of the civilians.
Speaking to families of Iranians killed in Syria fighting for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said if his regime had not gone beyond the borders to “fight the enemy”, it would had to fight them inside Iran.
One of such high value casualties is an IRGC member identified as Saleh Salehi from the city of Rumshir in Khuzestan province, southwest of the country.He along with five other Quds force operatives were killed during an attempted advance in Aleppo. The five Quds force operatives are identified as: Fazel Dib, Mohammad Mohammad Hammoud, Abbas Rajav Arab Abdullah, Hossein Konj and Rasoul Hassan.
Khat-e Hezbollah (Line of Hezbollah), a publication distributed by Khamenei’s official website, Khamenei.ir, published the comments by the regime’s Supreme Leader during a meeting with the families of Iranians killed both in Syria and Iraq.
Khamenei was quoted as saying: “If your martyrs had not gone to fight the enemy, the enemy would have come to enter our country. We would have to fight the enemy here in Kermanshah and Hamedan and other provinces…”
Hassan Rouhani made similar remarks on February 8, admitting to the fact that there is no difference between Hassan Rouhani, Ali Khamenei and other leaders of the regime and the revolutionary guards and the Quds Force as far as the issue of Syria and is concerned.
In paying homage to those involved in the nuclear negotiations on February 8, Hassan Rouhani said: “Had it not been for our armed forces who guarded the security of this country and if our valiant commanders were not steadfast in Baghdad, Samara, Fallujah and Ramadi…, had they not helped the Syrian government in Damascus and Aleppo, and were it not for the valor of the army, the IRGC, the Basij, and the Islamic Republic Security Forces, we would not have enjoyed the security that we needed to conduct such good negotiations.”
On Monday, February 8, speaking at the funeral of a number of revolutionary guards killed in Syria, Secretary of regime’s Supreme National Security Council and a close associate of Rouhani said: If these individuals had not been killed in Syria, “our Tehran would have been insecure; our Hamadan and our Ahvaz would have been insecure”.
