Iran will support Syria 'to the end': military chief

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

TEHRAN — Iran will support Syria "until the end" in the face of possible US-led military strikes, the chief of Iran's elite Quds Force unit was quoted Thursday by the media as saying.

Iran is Syria's main regional ally and some analysts believe a wider goal of US President Barack Obama's determination to launch a strike against the Damascus regime is to blunt Tehran's growing regional influence and any consequent threat to Washington ally Israel.

"The aim of the United States is not to protect human rights ... but to destroy the front of resistance (against Israel)," Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani was quoted as saying. "We will support Syria to the end," he added in a speech to the Assembly of Experts, the body that supervises the work of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

He did not elaborate on the nature of the support and Iran has constantly denied allegations by Western powers that it has sent military forces to prop up President Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime.

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[countmyvote4real]

1. Quelle surprise! Hello Obama?

How are you going to bug bomb that? Fumigation? (aka nerve gas)

What a disappointment you have turned out to be. They should revoke your Nobel Peace Prize.

[another_liberal]

2. Nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about at all.

We're the biggest, baddest gunslinger in town, with the fastest draw around! Like that great and beloved American leader once said:

"Bring em on!"

[Coyotl]

3. Does this mean there is an end to war?

That could be a first since war began many thousands of years ago.

[Sunlei]

4. a huge shame all those 'fight with each other to the end' countries ruined Persia

[gordianot]

5. I wonder if those using the term "until the end" understand what it means?

Here is my point Israel has a nuclear stockpile of weapons and has had them for decades. They are very quiet about using them but who doubts they are willing to use them? Iran has not been quiet about nuclear research but consistently denies nuclear weapon development. Iran from time to time threatens Israel with annihilation. Both Israel and Iran have a rather violent history. Israel has the means to put an "end" to Iran with nuclear weapons. Most likely Iran has the means to put an "end" to Israel with a variety of chemical weapons and who knows what else after all it is a smaller target. Is there an equivalent term in Farsi and Hebrew to the English word "the end"?

[blkmusclmachine]

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