The New York Times: Iran has begun evacuating its military leaders from Syria
The New York Times reported: The American newspaper said on Saturday that Iran began evacuating its leaders and military personnel from Syria yesterday, Friday, according to regional and Iranian officials, in reference to Iran’s inability to help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remain in power while he faces a renewed attack from opposition forces.
The newspaper attributed to officials that among those evacuated to neighboring Iraq and Lebanon were senior commanders in the powerful Iranian Quds Force, the foreign branch of the Guards. The revolution.
According to Iranian officials, two of whom are members of the Revolutionary Guard, and regional officials, members of the Guard, some Iranian diplomatic staff, their families, and Iranian civilians were evacuated. The officials, who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue, said that the Iranians began leaving Syria on Friday morning.
Iranian and regional officials said that orders had been issued By evacuating workers at the Iranian embassy in Damascus and Revolutionary Guard bases. At least some embassy employees have left.
The officials said that some of those who left are leaving by plane to Tehran, while others are leaving via land routes to Lebanon, Iraq, and the Syrian port of Latakia.
The newspaper said that the sudden attack launched by a group of opposition forces changed the political scene in Syria, where Assad fought the civil war until it stopped, and also changed Iran’s control over some Syrian lands. Within just one week, opposition forces overran major cities such as Aleppo and Hama, seized vast tracts of land in four governorates, and advanced toward the Syrian capital, Damascus.
He said. Iranian officials said two senior generals in the Quds Force, who were deployed to advise the Syrian army, fled to Iraq while various armed groups took control of Homs and Deir ez-Zor yesterday. Friday.
The newspaper said that the attack launched by the opposition forces came at a moment of relative weakness for three of Syria’s most important supporters, as Iran’s ability to provide assistance had diminished due to its conflict with Israel. ; The Russian army was exhausted due to its invasion of Ukraine. Hezbollah, which had previously supplied fighters to Assad’s government, was dealt a severe blow due to its war with Israel.
The newspaper said that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi traveled to Damascus last week, where He met with Assad and pledged full Iranian support to him, but in Baghdad yesterday, Friday, he seemed to make a more ambiguous statement. He said in an interview on Iraqi television: “We are not astrologers. Everything God wants will happen, but resistance will fulfill its duty.
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