Iranian fighters posing as pilgrims among group captured by Syrian rebels, US officials confirm

H/T Taffy in Canada

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Published August 14, 2012

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  • This image from a video released by the Baraa Brigades purports to show Free Syrian Army soldiers guarding a group of Iranians captured a day earlier. (AP)

Many of the 48 Iranian men captured in Syria on August 4 who claimed to be religious pilgrims are in fact active-duty Iranian Revolutionary Guard members, multiple U.S. officials tell Fox News.

Members of the Free Syrian Army captured the group while they traveled on a bus in Damascus.

According to these officials, top members of the Iranian government have reached out to President Bashar Assad to help secure their release. The Iranians say these men were on a Shiite pilgrimage visiting the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a holy Shiite site in the suburbs of Damascus.

 

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2 Replies to “Iranian fighters posing as pilgrims among group captured by Syrian rebels, US officials confirm”

  1. We all know Assad is allied with Iran so why is anyone surprised when they send him help.

  2. DEATH to the “Islamic Republic of Iran”!

    LONG LIVE PERSIA!

    Now that Persians have been under the fatwa of the ayatollahs for 33 years, the Shah doesn’t look so bad.