Iran Ready to 'Train' Syria Army, Condemns Israeli Airstrike
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Iran is ready to help "train" the Syrian army if Damascus seeks such assistance, the commander of the Islamic republic's army ground forces, General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, was quoted as saying on Sunday.
"As a Muslim nation, we back Syria, and if there is need for training we will provide them with the training, but won't have any active involvement in the operations," he said in remarks reported by the official IRNA news agency.
"The Syrian army has accumulated experience during years of conflict with the Zionist regime (Israel) and is able to defend itself and doesn't need foreign assistance," he added.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman also condemned an Israeli airstrike in Syria on an alleged shipment of Iranian-made missiles.
Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted by the semiofficial Fars news agency as denouncing the attack on the missiles, which were believed en route to Hizbullah.
It's the first Iranian comments since Israel launched a first round of airstrikes on Friday, then another round on Sunday.
Mehmanparast urged countries in the region to remain united against Israel, but gave no other suggestions of possible further action in response.
05 May 2013, 11:51
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"The Syrian army has accumulated experience during years of conflict with the Zionist regime (Israel) and is able to defend itself and doesn't need foreign assistance," he added.
hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
05 May 2013, 15:09
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a correction to mr pourdastan statement is due: instead of gaining honorable fighting experience against a legitimate ennemy the syrian army has accumulated deadly mistakes and atrocities against its own people.
05 May 2013, 15:23
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hahah train them to do what? stare harder at isralie F-15s & try to bring them down with brain power?
05 May 2013, 17:04
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What a newspaper heading "Iran.....condemms Israeli airstrike". Iran condemns Israelis breathing so what exactly is new there.
Iran is sending missiles through Syria to the Hizballah in Lebanon to "fight" against Israel and involve the Lebanese state in more unneeded damage. Doesn't the Iranian leadership yet understand that Hizballah are fighting with the opposition to the butcher Assad, so should the destroyed missile have reached them, they could have used them on Irans ally, the Syrian Army.
05 May 2013, 11:54
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"The Syrian army has accumulated experience during years of conflict with the Zionist regime..
that's news to me ..i can not remember the last time the Syrian regime fired one shot toward Israel.
05 May 2013, 12:03
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the last time they took up arms against Israel was 1982 when Syria had there entire air force shot down over Lebanon..it was around 100 fighter jets.
05 May 2013, 12:16
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The Syrian army has accumulated experience during years of conflict with the Zionist regime (Israel) and is able to defend itself and doesn't need foreign assistance," he added
So how many years of conflict was that????
05 May 2013, 13:06
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What a strange turn of events. For the past 40 years or so, Lebanon has been the arena of choice for regional and even international proxy wars and settlement of accounts. Now this role is quickly being taken over by Syria. Mabrouk!!
05 May 2013, 14:28
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the Iranian response, shows the weakness of Ahmadinejad. On more than one occasion, he used to confirm that Iran and Syria are united against any external aggression. If Syria is attacked, Iran will defend. It proves that Iran, Syria, and hizbullah are nothing but a cry wolf, who enjoys Israel existence to recruit fanatics, and enhance their existence.
05 May 2013, 16:27
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You mean to tell me they are not going to retaliate using their stealthy new state of the art qahar 313?
