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<\/p>\nNCRI – The MailOnline has published an article based on information provided by the Iranian Resistance stating that the Iranian regime is shoring up the Syrian regime from a secret HQ in Damascus nicknamed \u2018the Glasshouse\u2019 – and commanding a huge covert army in support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n
The report, published on August 30, 2016, said:<\/p>\n
“The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claims that the theocratic state’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has spent billions in hardware for its ally Bashar al-Assad in the last five years – and runs operations on the ground from a five-floor monolith near Damascus airport.”<\/p>\n
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“The Iranian HQ, which plays a pivotal role in supporting Assad’s regime alongside Russia, contains intelligence and counterintelligence operations, and has vaults packed with millions of dollars in cash flown in from Tehran, claims the NCRI.”<\/p>\n
“The allegations are contained in a dossier of reports apparently leaked by senior sources inside Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards and collated by the dissident activists who oppose the Iranian regime.”<\/p>\n
“The dossier \u2013 which could not be independently verified but was described as ‘credible’ by intelligence experts \u2013 makes the bold claims that Iran controls the biggest fighting force in Syria; has military bases throughout the splintered state; and has amassed a war-chest far greater than feared in support of the Syrian president.”<\/p>\n
“If the activists’ claims are accurate, this would mean that the fundamentalist Tehran regime and its Shia proxies are far more powerful than has been estimated. Western analysts have so far placed the total Iranian-led Shia force at just 16,000.”<\/p>\n
“The dissidents make the claim that Iran now commands about 60,000 Shia troops in Syria \u2013 15,000 more men than Britain took into the 2003 Iraq war \u2013 while Assad’s army has been reduced to just 50,000 soldiers.”<\/p>\n
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“In addition, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which has an independent command structure but operates in close coordination with Iran, has about 10,000 troops in the country, they say.”<\/p>\n