The killing of Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Mohammad Jamali Paghal’e, one of the IRGC commanders in the unfair war against the Syrian people, once again sheds light on the scope of the Iranian regime’s military meddling in Syria and shows that Bashar Assad would have fallen long ago without the IRGC’s active and comprehensible presence.
According to the Mehr news agency – affiliated to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence – Maohammad Jamali was the IRGC commander of the city of Kerman and a “great operations commander” and “forefront opener” during the Iran-Iraq War in 1980 to 1988. Jamali also rose in the ranks of crimes during the years when current Quds Force commander Ghassem Soleimani was the commander of the IRGC division in Kerman.
In the meantime, Javad Karimi, member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) Security Commission provided more details on the IRGC’s presence in Syria in saying, “Hundreds of battalions from Iran are present in Syria. Although you hear the news of the Syrian Army’s victories through a Syrian commander, it is actually Iranian forces that are behind the scene. (When the US announced possible attacks against Syria) in the days when all embassies in Damascus were closed, Iran’s official delegation, along with their families, were there in the scene and this was heartwarming for Bashar Assad.” (State-run media outlet Asr-e Iran, 4 November 2013).
In addition to the IRGC, the mullahs are on a daily basis dispatching the Lebanese Hezbollah and thousands of Iraqis linked to the Quds Force to Syria to carry out massacres against the innocent people of this country. Iran has also poured tens of billions of dollars of the deprived Iranian people’s wealth into the inferno of this cruel and inhumane war.
Saudi Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on Tuesday, November 5th, described “Syria today is a land occupied by Iran”, and Syrian National Coalition President Ahmed al-Jarba said on November 3rd one of the conditions for the opposition to take part in the Geneva II talks is for the “occupying Iran not being present at the negotiating table.” In a recent Arab League session he said, “It must be demanded from the occupying regime of Iran to pull out the IRGC and its mercenaries from Syria.”
While the scope of the Iranian regime’s meddling in Syria under Rouhani’s presidency has reached unprecedented dimensions, his foreign minister in Paris with the utmost obscenity called for all foreign forces to exit Syria. This is while no foreign force in Syria other than the Iranian regime’s IRGC and its Lebanese and Iraqi branches has any combat troops.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 6, 2013