Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)
Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani is in Syria in preparation for a large-scale operation by the Syrian army and popular forces in Southern Aleppo, a resistance movement announced on Monday.
According to the media center of Hezbollah al-Nujaba, a major Iraqi Shiite resistance movement fighting against terrorism, General Soleimani has traveled to Syria after intensified clashes between the governmental forces and terrorists in Southern Aleppo province the Persian-language MNA reported.
It added that General Soleimeni was in Syria on Sunday to be briefed on events and operations of Nujaba forces in Southern Aleppo.
This is while
the IRGC Quds Force commander was in Iraq in recent days to render advisory services to the Iraqi forces in operations to liberate Fallujah.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ebrahim al-Jafari informed on June 10 that General Soleimani was in Iraq to help the country in campaign against terrorism after receiving Baghdad's rigid request.
"General Soleimani is in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government to provide military counseling to the Iraqi forces," the Arabic-language Sumeria news channel quoted al-Jafari as saying.
Comment: This comes just two weeks after the Syrian, Russian and Iranian defense ministers met in Tehran to discuss the future course of the war in Syria. See:
Naturally, Saudi Arabia is not pleased, and the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs has
summoned the Saudi ambassador, Samer al-Sabhan "to remind him of his duty not to interfere in the country's internal affairs":
On his Facebook page, the ambassador had vehemently criticized the presence of the Iranian military advisers at the side of the Iraqi forces that are fighting to liberate Fallujah, under Isis occupation.
Furthermore on 12 June, a delegation led by the first secretary of the Saudi Ambassador, Salah Abdallah Hatlani, came to visit Saudi prisoners held at al-Hout (Nasriyah). He declared that the King had done everything in his power to free them. At present, the individuals are imprisoned for crimes they committed as members of Isis.
In April, the Kingdom had proposed to send its army to fight Isis in Iraq. However, a number of political lraqi leaders consider that actually, Saudi Arabia is one of the main, secret supporters of the terrorist organization.
Things are coming to a head, the battle for Aleppo either the end of the push for the West, or the beginning of a real poop storm.