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Iran bolsters Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with drones shipment
IRAN is stepping up its arms shipments and training for Shia militias in Syria, bolstering the regime of President Bashar al-Assad as the proxy war consuming the country deepens despite the fight against Islamic State.
Tehran is determined to counter the threat to Damascus from Syrian rebel forces, who are receiving weapons and training from the US and its Arab allies.
The US congress has approved $US500 million ($574m) in aid, weapons and training for Syrian rebel groups. Saudi Arabia and Jordan are to open their military bases to train 10,000 troops, who will be filtered back into the conflict to strengthen the Free Syrian Army.
Worried about the impact this will have on its client state, Iran will airlift missiles and mortar bombs to its proxy militias fighting the FSA and Islamic State on separate fronts, as well as drones to monitor enemy movement.
The move was agreed at a meeting in Damascus last week between Assad and Qassem Suleimani, Iran’s spy chief, Iranian sources said. Iran and Syria are convinced coalition airstrikes against Islamic State will be followed by an attempt to oust Assad.
Some 2000 troops from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have been deployed in Syria, along with a host of commanders and support staff who oversee bands of Shia fighters from Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Iran has agreed increased support in terms of training and hardware but is reluctant to commit extra boots on the ground,” an Iranian government adviser said. He said that Iran was “very wary” of the fight against Islamic State “turning into an intervention against the (Assad) regime”.
While Iranian interests in Syria diverge sharply with those of the US and Arab allies, Iran has been pivotal in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq. Mr Suleimani has co-ordinated Shia militias in a defence of Baghdad, and tacit co-operation between Iranian forces and US air support helped to liberate the town of Amerli.
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