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Defectors from the Syrian army controlled by Bashar al Assad\u2019s regime say government troops are nothing more than front for Iranian and Lebanese regular troops and groups who now are in control, The Washington Times reported.<\/p>\n
Khaled al-Shami, a recent defector from the Syrian army says: \u201cOne important thing to realize is that there is no Syrian army anymore, it is just militias, mostly Iranians and Lebanese.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Iranians and Hezbollah are not under the control of the Syrian army, it\u2019s the exact opposite,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTen high-ranking Iranian officers control the [ninth armored] division, they plan the operations. Only Iranian or Hezbollah forces can access operations rooms, no Syrian soldiers are allowed in \u2026 (in every battle) the commander is an Iranian IRGC (Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps), his deputy will be a Hezbollah officer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven the civilian Lebanese militia have the power to tell a Syrian general what to do, to send him back to his office,\u201d said a soldier, who asked to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n
Shami defected from Assad\u2019s troops to join the Syrian opposition in July. He was a soldier in the ninth armored division and served in southern Syria, where President Assad\u2019s forces are battling a coalition of rebel groups. Free Syrian Army fighters now say that all of the troops they face in Syria\u2019s civil war are now foreigners, Iranian, Lebanese or Russian.<\/p>\n
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