#1 Syria Thread

[Ray Allan]

Raeisi: Israel will definitely pay price for assassinating senior IRGC commander

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi saus the Israeli regime will definitely pay the price for its criminal act of killing a senior military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria.

In a message on Monday Raeisi said the vicious act of assassinating the IRGC miltary advisor in a missile attack in Syria was yet another sign of the usurping Zionist regime's desperation.

Sayyed Razi Mousavi, who was serving as a senior military advisor in Syria, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood of the Syrian capital of Damascus earlier on Monday.

The president extended his condolences to Mousavi's bereaved family, his fellow comrades in the IRGC and the Iranian nation over his assassination.

He added that the brave military advisor who was one of the companions of Iran's top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, was killed while "safeguarding lofty Islamic values."

General Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC, and his trenchmate, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), were martyred along with their companions in a US drone strike on January 3, 2020.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/1...nation--Israel

[Ray Allan]

Biden Gearing Up for US Deaths in Syria and Iraq - War with Iran

Apparently, Joe Biden seeks to become the all-time champ at destroying countries during his presidency. Not satisfied at degrading Ukraine, Gaza and Yemen, he's turned his gun sight on Iran.

His road to war with Iran is based on the pretense that they are behind the 140 missile attacks that have wounded over 70 US soldiers in Iraq and Syria. Of course, Biden has made those 3,400 soldiers there sitting ducks since they illegally occupy countries that for some strange reason, want them out.

Shi'ite militias have been targeting US troops there for years, and arming Israel's ongoing genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza 110 days ago.

Biden and his war team warn that if a single US soldier is killed, he may have no choice but to attack Iran, even if the Pentagon said it has no direct evidence Iran is directing the attacks by the Iraqi and Syrian militias.

One US official said a single US death could be the red line that results in US retaliation against Iran. So far, "That is a red line that has not been crossed, but if the Iranian-backed militias ever have a day of better aim and better luck, it could easily be."

Better aim or better luck...all that's required for Joe Biden to ravage his fourth country in 3 years.

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/01...war-with-iran/