Mutiny within Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after it incurs heavy losses in Syria

[Solomon2]

Written by : Asharq Al-Awsat
on : Wednesday, 4 Nov, 2015

Mutiny within Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after it incurs heavy losses in Syria: source
Several high-ranking generals killed in Aleppo since October

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Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers march during an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran, on September 22, 2013. (EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh)​

Tehran and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A rising death toll within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria is leading to a mutiny among some senior commanders, who have refused to obey orders to fight in the war-torn country, according to a source close to the Revolutionary Guard.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Asharq Al-Awsat the commanders, who are also joined by a number of junior officers, have now been referred to a court-marshal on charges of “mutiny and treason.”

Iran, which alongside Russia is Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s main international ally, has denied it has combat troops in Syria, claiming it has only sent officers and generals within an advisory capacity to assist both the Syrian army and Hezbollah militias.

The semi-official Fars news agency said on Tuesday some 30 military personnel from the Revolutionary Guard have been killed in Syria in recent weeks, including high-ranking figures such as Col. Mostafa Ezzatollah, Gen. Farshad Hasoonizadeh, and Gen. Hossein Hamedani, who were all killed in Aleppo.

Meanwhile, the source told Asharq Al-Awsat several Revolutionary Guard generals from Ahvaz province, which has a large Iranian–Arab population, have “chosen retirement and pursuing business activities” rather than having to head to Syria.

The Revolutionary Guard court-marshals have now opened an official investigation into the large numbers of suddenly retired generals from the region in what they called “this critical time” for the Revolutionary Guard, according to the source.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is charged with defending the values of Iran’s Islamic Revolution both inside the country and abroad and members must pledge unwavering loyalty to the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The source also said a recent rise in deaths among the much-feared Quds Force—an elite paramilitary unit of the Revolutionary Guard charged with carrying out foreign missions—has led its leadership to begin recruiting higher-ranking officers to fight in Syria.

Iranian opposition publication Rooz Online has reported recently that the Revolutionary Guard have begun utilizing new recruitment initiatives in the Sistan and Baluchistan province, in order to bolster their depleting ranks.

Recruiters are targeting the province’s religious and ethnic minorities—which include Kurds, Baluchs, and Sunni Muslims—as well as the poor, offering the equivalent of 830 dollars for six weeks’ service in Syria following training.

 

[Serpentine]

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Al-Saud mouthepice garbage spreader, Asharq Al-Awsat

Again, an "unnamed source" talks to Saudi mouthpiece.

 

[Solomon2]

Again, an "unnamed source" talks to Saudi mouthpiece.

Can you shoot down the specifics?

 

[jaydee]

Written by : Asharq Al-Awsat
on : Wednesday, 4 Nov, 2015

Mutiny within Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after it incurs heavy losses in Syria: source
Several high-ranking generals killed in Aleppo since October

Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers march during an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran, on September 22, 2013. (EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh)​

Tehran and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A rising death toll within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria is leading to a mutiny among some senior commanders, who have refused to obey orders to fight in the war-torn country, according to a source close to the Revolutionary Guard.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Asharq Al-Awsat the commanders, who are also joined by a number of junior officers, have now been referred to a court-marshal on charges of “mutiny and treason.”

Iran, which alongside Russia is Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s main international ally, has denied it has combat troops in Syria, claiming it has only sent officers and generals within an advisory capacity to assist both the Syrian army and Hezbollah militias.

The semi-official Fars news agency said on Tuesday some 30 military personnel from the Revolutionary Guard have been killed in Syria in recent weeks, including high-ranking figures such as Col. Mostafa Ezzatollah, Gen. Farshad Hasoonizadeh, and Gen. Hossein Hamedani, who were all killed in Aleppo.

Meanwhile, the source told Asharq Al-Awsat several Revolutionary Guard generals from Ahvaz province, which has a large Iranian–Arab population, have “chosen retirement and pursuing business activities” rather than having to head to Syria.

The Revolutionary Guard court-marshals have now opened an official investigation into the large numbers of suddenly retired generals from the region in what they called “this critical time” for the Revolutionary Guard, according to the source.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is charged with defending the values of Iran’s Islamic Revolution both inside the country and abroad and members must pledge unwavering loyalty to the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The source also said a recent rise in deaths among the much-feared Quds Force—an elite paramilitary unit of the Revolutionary Guard charged with carrying out foreign missions—has led its leadership to begin recruiting higher-ranking officers to fight in Syria.

Iranian opposition publication Rooz Online has reported recently that the Revolutionary Guard have begun utilizing new recruitment initiatives in the Sistan and Baluchistan province, in order to bolster their depleting ranks.

Recruiters are targeting the province’s religious and ethnic minorities—which include Kurds, Baluchs, and Sunni Muslims—as well as the poor, offering the equivalent of 830 dollars for six weeks’ service in Syria following training.

Oh yeah !!!
Only US forces fight valiantly,like in Afghanistan.And those forces who through sulphur bombs on innocents fight valiantly.
By the way my source said that Mossad and it pawns in syria have been annihilated.The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity

 

[Hack-Hook]

well just wanted to say there is a proverb here that can be translated into "It won't rain if the black cat say so."

@Solomon2 couldn't you at least have chosen Debka file as your source ,that would have been more credible

 

[Solomon2]

@Solomon2 couldn't you at least have chosen Debka file as your source ,that would have been more credible

Ouch!

I do have to wonder at the "news" here. A single, unconfirmed, anonymous source? That's the sort of thing Zionists like myself criticize the BBC, Reuters, etc. for. And the supporting information from Fars may have no connection to a "mutiny".

Time will tell whether or not "The Green Truth" is worthy of its nickname here.

 

[Serpentine]

Can you shoot down the specifics?

If you look closer at your sources you usually use e.g Elder of Zion and Saudi regime mouthpiece, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, then you shouldn't ask for any more 'specifics'. It's screaming for itself.

And the supporting information from Fars may have no connection to a "mutiny".

Please provide some of that supporting information.

 

[Hussein]

clearly crap.
i am sure many in IRGC don't agree for Syria and many many don't like Assad, but saying IRGC mutinery is so bullshit

and saying about "facts" of the article ... there is NO source . all is bullshit.

but what to expect from this source...

 

[[Bregs]]

i always heard that IRG are very loyal to the president of Iran so this news do not seems to be factually correct

 

[Madali]

Iranian opposition publication Rooz Online has reported recently that the Revolutionary Guard have begun utilizing new recruitment initiatives in the Sistan and Baluchistan province, in order to bolster their depleting ranks.

This is the funniest part. So, a handful die and suddenly they need to recruit from Sistan and Baluchistan? Do they think that the Revolutionary Gaurd's full force was 15 people? That is a few died, they go, "OH SHIT, WE HAVE RUN OUT OF PEOPLE!!!"

Sepah has more than 100,000 fighting force. It will take much, much more to ever reach depletion.

 

[Beast]

Propangada has reach a low point.

 

[IR1907]

LOL out of all forces in Iran they chose the IRGC for their propaganda?

Do these retards not know that IRGC members are hardcore ideologists? Meaning they sign up to do exactly the stuff they are told to.

 

[500]

clearly crap.
i am sure many in IRGC don't agree for Syria and many many don't like Assad, but saying IRGC mutinery is so bullshit

and saying about "facts" of the article ... there is NO source . all is bullshit.

but what to expect from this source...

Why cant be mutiny in IRGC? People who joined it thought that all they need to do is shoot and rape teenage student girls and now they are sent as cannon fodder to Syria.

 

[jammersat]

Don't tell us they are joining the Daesh / IS

 

[Serpentine]

shoot and rape teenage student girls

That's IDF for you in few words.