{"id":326917,"date":"2024-12-21T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=326917"},"modified":"2024-12-21T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T10:48:16","slug":"putins-disclosure-on-evacuating-irgc-personnel-exposes-iranian-regimes-humiliating-retreat-from-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/putins-disclosure-on-evacuating-irgc-personnel-exposes-iranian-regimes-humiliating-retreat-from-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Disclosure on Evacuating IRGC Personnel Exposes Iranian Regime\u2019s Humiliating Retreat from Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Iranian regime is facing a mounting crisis following Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s revelation that 4,000<\/a> Iranian military personnel have been withdrawn from Syria. This announcement, made during Putin\u2019s annual press conference on December 19, starkly contrasts Tehran\u2019s long-standing claims about its \u201cadvisory role\u201d in Syria, laying bare the regime\u2019s military setbacks and exposing a deepening crisis in its regional ambitions and domestic control.<\/p>\n

Putin confirmed, \u201cWe assisted Iran in withdrawing 4,000 military personnel from Syria at Tehran\u2019s request.\u201d The Kremlin also acknowledged providing political asylum to Bashar al-Assad and his family following the collapse of his regime in Damascus.<\/p>\n

The disclosure has triggered defensive reactions from Iranian officials attempting to downplay or deny the statement. Senior IRGC commander Mohammad Esmail Kowsari rejected<\/a> Putin\u2019s claim, stating, \u201cThe Islamic Republic does not allow Russia to move its forces,\u201d and adding, \u201cThese individuals were not Iranian soldiers but foreign volunteers, including Lebanese and Afghans, who had been involved in advisory activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, Mohammad-Jafar Asadi<\/a>, another IRGC official, claimed that those transported were \u201cnon-military personnel\u201d or \u201cShiite Afghans and Pakistanis who had been assisting humanitarian efforts in Syria.\u201d Asadi also suggested that \u201ceven Iranian teachers working in Syria were instructed to leave via Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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