Tehran is believed to be preparing to dispatch a substantial Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) special operations unit to Syria to tackle the separate rebel and ISIS advances closing in on the Assad regime.They say the Syrian army is already setting aside an area in northern Syria for the Iranian troops to take up position.
Up until now, Tehran has carefully avoided putting Iranian boots on the ground in both Syria and Iraq. The only place where Iranian forces are directly engaged in battle is at Iraq’s main refinery town of Baiji, where small infantry and artillery units have been trying - without success thus far - to dislodge ISIS forces from the refinery complex. (READ MORE)
