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Tehran Bureau @ guardian.co.uk, 30 August, 2013
Including the big boss: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has stopped short of saying Tehran would come to Bashar al-Assad's defence
who seems to have had an affect on the military's rhetoric in the last few days:
[....] Khamenei's silence about defending Assad was underscored by a subsequent report from the semi-official Fars news agency on a speech delivered by General Mohammad Ali Jafari, chief of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. In extensive excerpts of his address to a conference of ground force commanders, there was not a single word about Syria.
A year ago, by contrast, Colonel Mohammad Ali Asoodi, the head of the guards' culture and propaganda office, said: "If America attacks Syria, Iran, along with Syrian allies will go into action."
The tone of General Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy chief-of-staff of Iran's armed forces, took a particularly noticeable turn this week.
On Sunday, he had threatened: "The United States is aware of the red zone of the Syrian front and any violation of the Syrian red line will have serious consequences for the White House," including revenge by multiple nations.
Three days later, however, he said little more than that an internationalised war would be a net loss to Israel. Like Khamenei, the only intervention he invoked was divine. "God willing, the flames of this conflagration will set Zionism's robe ablaze," he said.
He refrained from making any threats towards the US, and settled for offering advice: "The Americans should rid themselves of this arrogant self-assuredness and if they have any resources, spend them on saving the American people." [....]
Comments
Russia has already sent warships to the Meditterenean. The folks in Iran's gov. aren't dumb. They know what coming to Syria's defense with all of that going on would mean. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/28/320969/22-reasons-wwiii-in-mideast-is-bad-idea/
by Orion on Fri, 08/30/2013 - 4:07pm
Here's what Russia's state news wants to say about those ships: Russian Med Fleet Redeployment ‘Not Linked’ to Syria – Navy. I am not suggesting you have to believe it, only that that is the message they want out there. But there was this news Wednesday Russia To Withdraw Personnel From Syria Naval Base that suggests they might be telling the truth.
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/30/2013 - 5:01pm
'Going into action' for Iran means cowardly and heinous acts like bombing innocents in nations like Argentina.
by NCD on Fri, 08/30/2013 - 5:50pm