Syrian rebels claim they captured Iranian soldiers
'Free Syria Army' posts video featuring who they claim are soldiers from the Revolutionary Guards, who call on Ayatollah Khamanei to pull back Iran forces from Syria.
By Jack Khoury Tags: Syria Iran Bashar AssadThe Syrian rebel army, dubbed the 'Free Syria Army,' posted a video on Friday featuring Iranian soldiers and officers from the Revolutionary Guard who they captured during fighting in Homs, they claimed.
The video shows soldiers sitting against the wall, beside various weapons. One soldier is the main speaker, and presents himself, in Persian, as an officer in Iran's Revolutionary Guards. He said that he arrived in Syria in order to aide Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad in the crackdown on protesters.
The officer turned to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and demanded, in the name of the rebels, that Iran pull back its forces from Syria.
Throughout the video, the passports of the soldiers are presented, in order to show the authenticity of the recording.
The video begins at 0:49
Meanwhile, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Thursday that 11 Iranian pilgrims were abducted by the Syrian rebel army.
Earlier this week, Al-Arabiya television reported that, according to a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard official, Hezbollah forces recently took part in fighting in the Zabadani region on the outskirts of Damascus, after "terrorist elements" attacked a Revolutionary Guard base in Madaya in the Zabadani region. According to the official, the Revolutionary Guard secretly asked Hezbollah to urgently dispatch forces to prevent the fall of an Iranian base on Syrian soil to opposition forces.
Moreover, there have been recent reports that Hezbollah was moving hundreds of missiles from storage sites in Syria to bases in Lebanon, fearing the fall of Assad's regime.
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I never doubt for a moment that Islamic Iran is helping Baby Assad survival that assure Hezbollah survival as well. It is very simple logic to comprehend giving the fact Syria is conduit of arms to Shite Hezbo. The tide of events seems not favorable to Iran, and scared if they lost Syria, Hezbo would be left powerless against other Lebanese groups. And ultimately against Israel! The last one does matter to me! Long live Israel!
Muslims are such big liars
Good job putting teh bag on these fellows. Now waterboard the bastards, and lets see what they confess. As for Hizbullah getting involved in Syria. Seems the government of lebanon could eassily find itself in a war soon. Wonder who authorized the Lebanese involvement since Hizbullah is defacto running the country.
7 reds captured by civilians, so far ...shows how inept they really are...many more infiltrators to come "Iran trained" means very little evidently. stupid is the word. that's cause they only read ONE book.
and not just some pilgrim/tourist that these terrorists have kidnapped?
but what makes them soldiers is my question? there are thousands of Iranian pilgrims everyday in Syria, it would be pretty easy to just snatch some to prove that Iran had ground forces in Syria.