According to the state-run Mehr news agency, affiliated to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Brigadier General Mohammad Jamali Paqale was the commander IRGC in the city of Kerman.
He was also described as a “great commander” and “a leading commander in forefront” during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.
Jamali rose in the ranks during the years when current Quds Force commander Ghassem Soleimani was the commander of the IRGC division in Kerman.
In the meantime, Javad Ghoddusi Karimi, a member of the regime’s Majlis’ (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission provided more details on the IRGC’s presence in Syria.
He said on Monday: “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 which was encouraging for Bashar al-Assad.” (State-run daily Asr-e-Iran, 4 November 2013).
In addition to the IRGC, on a daily basis, the mullahs are dispatching to Syria members of the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqis linked to the Quds Force to massacre the people of that country.
The Iranian regime is also pouring tens of billions of dollars of the wealth of deprived Iranian people into the cruel and inhumane war.
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said on Tuesday, November 5:“Syria today is occupied by Iran”.
The Syrian National Coalition President Ahmed al-Jarba said on November 3 that one of the conditions for the opposition to take part in the Geneva II talks is for the “occupying Iran not to be present at the negotiating table.”
In a recent Arab League session Mr Jarba 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 involvement in Syria under Hassan Rouhani’s presidency has reached unprecedented dimensions, his Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Paris shamelessly called on all foreign forces to exit Syria. This is while there are no foreign forces in Syria other than the Iranian regime’s IRGC and its Lebanese and Iraqi surrogates.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 6, 2013
