In Major Humiliation For Obama, Iran Sends Soldiers To Support Russian Troops In Syria

In the latest twist in what we have been warning for months has the makings of the biggest proxy shooting war in years, one that will come as a major humiliation to the Obama administration, today we find out that none other than America’s most recent diplomatic sweetheart in the Gulf region, Iran, has deployed ground soldiers into Syria in the past few days in cooperation with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

This answers our question from earlier this week:

So as the coalition drives towards Sana’a – which the Saudi-owned al-Hayat newspaper says will be “liberated” after a “decisive battle” in Marib – and as Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar mull options for the final push to oust Assad in Syria, the only remaining question is whether Iran will remain on the sidelines and allow the Houthis to be routed and Assad deposed, or whether, like Moscow, Tehran finally decides that the time for rheotric has come to an end.

And on that note, we’ll close with the following from AP: “Iran’s foreign minister on Monday criticized demands for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar Assad, saying such calls have prolonged the Arab country’s civil war. Mohammad Javad Zarif went so far as to say that those who have in the past years demanded Assad’s ouster “are responsible for the bloodshed in Syria.”

And so, Iran appears to have picked its side, and knowing that it has Obama wrapped around its finger as part of Obama’s huge “diplomatic coup” of restoring relations with Iran as part of the Nuclear Deal (since any backtracking would further embarrass the US president) and can pivot in any direction in the Syrian conflict, it has decided to side with Russia and Syria.

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