Exclusive: Iran steps up weapons lifeline to Assad

I thought the big airports were closed, huh… This is good for the regime, they need all the help they can get…

I’m tired of the UN. My government openly funds terrorists and think we are too stupid to notice while the UN parades around letting their favorites massacre the other side in one regional conflict after another. This is absolute horse ####.

Lets be honest here. If the rebels (and goodness knows who or what they are) were never armed in the first place, tens of thousands Syrians would still be alive today. Lybians are still dying and no media is following that tragedy. Stop interfering. Profits from arms sales to these countries are the disgrace of the west.

“Western diplomats said” … western diplomats have been found to be amongst the biggest manipulative liars on the planet.

The term Government no longer applies for the Assad regime, since it has lost any legitimacy it may have had in the past.
Currently, there is a bloody civil war between Sunnis and Alawis going on in Syria.
Assad is the leader of the minority Alawi clan, which was in power for decades.
The Sunnis greatly outnumber the Alawis, and the latter are in danger of being massacred as soon as the Sunnis win this war, which is going to happen sooner or later, as the world has already realized.

“The Iranians really are supporting massively the regime,” a senior Western diplomat said this week. “They (Iran) are playing now a crucial role.”

Sorry, but even Iranian diplomats speak and write more congruent English than this ‘anonymous’ western diplomat.

Iran needs to STOP supplying arms to Syria now or pay the consequences!
They will pay dearly. I hope France does supply arms to the resistance groups that are working for the betterment of Syria including regime change. Madman Assad must be taken out of the equation. He is no longer a legitimate Government and Russia needs to back off to.

When people complain about “outside interference”, why don’t they complain about the actions of the brutal regime of the Islamic Republic in the massacre and genocide of the Syrian people? Because they are hypocritical. We should have helped liberate Syria a long time ago. But now the terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic meddles in the affairs of others with their continued support of terror against the Syrian people.

“with Sunnis – an increasing number of whom come from Iraq – battling Shi’ites and members of Assad’s Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam.”

A sentence earlier claims that Iraq is ignoring over-flights from Iran to Syria.

You get the feeling the Iraqis are exporting their most eager “fighters” and getting them out of their own hair at the same time? Maybe they figure by ignoring Iranian over-flights they can insure that none of those fighters ever comes home again?

So what? When the Saudi’s military marched into Bahrain to kill the shiite demonstrators, did anyone in the West protest against it? Where were the human rights then, when a Western puppet is the aggressor? The rebels are getting weapons from Arab countries and now from USA and thats perfectly ok, but when Iran supports the counter part, oh dear the hell breaks loose? Who are you to define who the good and bad sides are? Double standards and hypocrisy. The rebels in Syria are pro-alquadia. They have beheaded numerous prisoners in front of camera. When was the last time you saw a shiite behead somebody? Just because the shiite regimes are anti-USA and Israel, the media rides and stomps on them…

Funny how Russia isn’t condeming this.

Wow, it is great to see so many people waking up and seeing things for what they are!

Western nations (NATO) are entangled in endless wars that have nothing to do with protecting their nations. The so-called war on terrorism has led to spending huge sums of tax dollars building Big Brother control grids within these countries. In turn, any sense of civil liberties or individual freedom citizens had at one time is being snuffed out for perceived security.
Just as there were warning signs in Syria years before the 2011 conflict began, the US’ intentions of provoking bloodshed and regime change in Venezuela stretch back as far as 2002. Just as Syria is now facing a Western-engineered proxy war, Venezuela will too, with the AEI already declaring US plans to wage a Syria-style proxy war in South America.

If the US can give free weapons to Israel to do ethnic cleansing and war crimes on Palestinians, then certainly Iran can provide weapons to its neighbor to defend itself against Al Qaeda and islamic extremist terrorists who’s plan is to enslave and dominate the world.
After all, if our neighbor Cuba was being invaded by a terrorist army the US would not only provide weapons, it would provide troops.

“Anonymous western diplomat” said…, AKA Israeli brainwashing establishment propaganda machine production section. As for weapons supply to Syria one can only guess how many kinds of made in the US turnkey weapons Israel possesses, or how many US parts, technology transfer, manufacturing processes, know how, $$$$’s are buried in Israel’s conventional and WMD armaments.

Russia and Syria. Old allies and they deserve each other.
Destroy Syria. It is responsible for most of the unrest in the Middle East since the 1960′s when I was a child. This is known and clear to anybody who has been awake and paid any form of attention. It is also clear when the youth try to lie about things they did not know we saw.
Clear the board of the BS politics. Cleanse the State Dept. and I mean fire EVERYBODY. Government has broken its contract with the citizens (the Constitution).
Fire them all. Everywhere.

@OdinsAcolyte you advocate genocide and then praise the constitution in the same paragraph?

…..You hypocrite! Have you no shame?

It seems like we are in a “de facto” war with Iran and Russia. Russia and Iran supplying the Syrian government with weapons and the US supplying the rebels with weapons and training in Jordan. Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc.

@ diddums wrote:
“Lets be honest here. If the rebels (and goodness knows who or what they are) were never armed in the first place, tens of thousands Syrians would still be alive today”

Ohh fun game, let me try:
If Iranian students never rebelled against the shah, then millions of Iranians and Iraqi’s would still be alive.
If the PLO were never armed, then tens of thousands of Palestinians would still be alive.

Consistency: how does it work?

@paintcan
“You get the feeling the Iraqis are exporting their most eager “fighters” and getting them out of their own hair at the same time?”

That is not a bad point, but one thing I have noticed and would like to learn more of, is why the average Sunni fighter seems to be superior to the average Shiite fighter. Syria aside, as its still embroiled in this conflict, every predominantly Sunni nation that experienced an Arab Spring now has a new government. The Shiite nations, Bahrain and even including the 2009 Iranian Green movement, have failed. On the Syrian battle front, the Sunni’s appear to be wiping the Shiite even though the Shiite fighters have better weapons, better training and, at least until recently, greater numbers.
One possible explanation I have considered is that the Sunni religion itself makes its fighters more willing to take chances and fight aggressively. It is a more conservative form of Islam and more readily accepts the traditional teachings of Jihad and that you receive 70 virgins when you die fighting a Jihad. History has shown that religiously devoted fighters typically perform better than non-devoted fighters. As an extreme example, imagine an army full of Atheists. People who believe when you die, you are dead and that is all folks. People with this belief have shown to be less willing to take chances and risk their lives in combat compared to those who believe that their soul will travel to some place heavenly upon death. Stalin even allowed the Church to reopen during the Nazi invasion as he found the soldiers performed better when they could pray before entering combat.
Whatever the reason, the Syrian army does not impress me as an effective fighting force as they have made some the greatest battlefield blunders since the Austrians in World War 1. Idiots I say, the Syrian army is, or is run by, total freaking idiots.

mean while the Obama administration is funding and giving weapons to the rebel terrorists, lets give him another Nobel peace prize..?

@ DominicPaz wrote:

“Consistency: how does it work?”

Really easy, you just have to tell the whole story….how did Shah got into power in the first place? Who have helped (as always)? Who helped to overthrow and kill Masadeq? Who was a prime minister after FREE AND FAIR elections and decided to kick out western oil companies….This is how it works.

Reuters reporting as: “Russia, diplomats said, also remained a key arms supplier for Assad. Unlike Iran, neither Syria nor Russia is subject to a U.N. ban on arms trade and are therefore not in violation of any U.N. rules when conducting weapons commerce. But accepting Iranian arms would be a violation of the U.N. Iran sanctions.”
AH the UN!!!! the really effective UN, unbelievable. Just goes to show if you are a nuclear powered nation you can get away with anything, including murdering civilians/citizens of foreign lands with impunity.

Slammy is a Wahhabi.
And Im glad all of his Sunni fundamentalists are getting killed in Syria.
In case you havent noticed, but the Sunni’s account for more of the dead than the Shiites…

But wait! I thought “No one needs these type weapons.”

“Oh”, you say, “They’re only needed in countries with tyrannical governments?”

“Exactly!” I reply.

@Prowler88

Free and fair like the last couple Iranian elections with all the state-sponsored suppression, and obvious moves to crush the people’s will? Or Free and fair like the kind of elections that Assad is killing tens of thousands of his own people to prevent? It’s best to be clear.

@KyleDexter
Yup, the Sunni do account for more dead. Question, how many of those were actually holding a gun and engaged in combat? My reading shows few, but I am willing to look at whatever you got that says differently. What ya got?
I do not care one way or the other which side is superior, I just find it interesting that the nascent Sunni resistance has made such a mockery of the Syrian army. This non-civil war would make a great squeal to the comedy, The Dictator, if it were not for the fact real lives are involved.
Besides, if you go back through my posts from two years ago, I was hoping Mr. Al Assad, aka Cowardly Lion, would allow at least some token democracy to avoid further bloodshed. I wanted to see this non-civil war avoided but Mr. big shot had to keep killing children.
My guess is that the most common word spoken by Mr. Al Assad, aka The Cowardly Lion, today is, “DOAH!”

I agree with “Slammy” if the world was without a religion we would have lived in peace most certainly.
And by the way the they are running out of virgins up there, St. Peters had to order refurbs from China so I hear from the devine powers, on wall street. LOL.

The US is arming Syrian Rebels while trying to take our guns away–pretty ironic.

Is this a blog for people to carry on a conversation?
I thought it was a comment section to post comments on the story.

@politcaljunkie
LMFAO

@americanguy
“Is this a blog for people to carry on a conversation?
I thought it was a comment section to post comments on the story.”

Not sure, I write, I hit Post Comment, and sometimes my words appear on the Comment page, others times they do not. Reuters does not seem shy about removing postings they feel are irrelevant, offensive or otherwise do not belong here.

I just see Muslims killing Muslims over their religious beliefs. I prefer that to Muslims killing non-Muslims over their religious beliefs. Muslims kill, that is what they are commanded to do. It is a religion based on a warlord that commands its followers to go kill the infadels. For anyone to believe that this will ever stop is pure ignorance of the Quaran.

70,000 mostly innocent people dead and what has Obama done to stop it? He took us into war without authorization into Lebanon to save a few thousand civilians, or so he said, but 70,000 in Syria and what does he care? And Iran is supporting the murderous regime, along with the terror organization Hizbollah, and what is Obama doing? Again, NOTHING! Its probably best that he doesn’t do anything, as anything he touches goes bankrupt or gets taken over by Islamic extremists and terrorists!

Russia’s support sort of makes you wonder if it isn’t a Shia nation, or leaning that way.

I have been following this war from the beginning and being that it is a war between two muslim sects I just don’t know which side to root for…….I say alu akbar to all of them. Keep up the good work

Sassan31 :

The Syria’s uprising is succession of concocted policies by US and its allies to purge ME of any resistant and disobedient for total hegemony.

Faramarz Fathi

…and this is what America gets for all the blood and money we poured into Iraq to establish a “democracy”—It’s just a pipeline for Iranian weapons to Syria!
I said when we conquered Iraq that we should have made a left turn and marched through Syria too!

@Slammy – Interesting, I didn’t know that about Stalin during WWII.

The problem with the religious minded who think they will find a better life elsewhere, is they are too eager to trash the one they have now.

Most likely, all sides pray to something and it is almost little more than a cat’s purr or whatever a cat does when it is in a fight? You are so close to describing the real situation that hundreds of thousands of years of evolution have equipped human beings with the ability to psych themselves for battle and even death. It’s a “high”.

But it doesn’t say they know what they doing or that they won’t make life worse for the survivors. And I can only despise the cynical manipulation of the ME monarchies who are obviously using Syria as a dumping ground for their more self-destructive (and destructive of anything in their way) young men. What do you estimate is the average age of the Syrian fighters on both sides? It sounds very like the fighters are mostly under-propertied and very likely they don’t have families to raise. The military forces have the security of government employment and probably are married with children. Does that describe them?

I am quite sure the battle grounds will continue to widen until most of the world is engaged and it blows up in the faces of those who thought they could manage the will to mass murder. It didn’t do Louis XVI or the court any favors by supporting the American colonies against the British Empire.

The economies and sway of the super powers have never been more fragile than they are now. Revolutionary zeal, or the lemmings call to jump off the cliff en masse, aren’t a whole lot of different, it seems to me.

Maybe it’s God’s way or nature’s way to severely thin the herd. More likely it’s something human beings have been doing for their entire existence and they can’t unlearn the trait. We are a creature governed by instincts just like all the others.

I can never forget that the Roman Empire ate as much of the known world as it could during its growth phase and then suffered hundreds of years of decline as those they ate turned the tables and ate them. The world empire never saw much peace after the pax Romana. I figure the super powers will suffer the same fate and it started about ten years ago. I also think mankind hates peace when it has too much and hates war when it has too much of it. But it is guaranteed that human beings never like what thy have for very long.

The religious books want to put too fine a gloss to history and made a mistake by not having the slightest idea about the true age of mankind or evolution. The fact that all the religious traditions are available to anyone who wants to learn about them, is also something that could easily make all of them obsolete. Now none of them can claim human beings as captives of their creed.