Breaking News: JANATTI  HINTS GUARDIAN COUNCIL MAY BAN RAFSANJANI!!!http://news.yahoo.com/iran-may-ban-candidates-seek-ties-us-120429733.html   How corrupt and rigged can Iranian elections get?   What impact would this news have on turnout? ... Continue reading »

Iran and Hezbollah won't stop their efforts to keep Assad afloat unless they face the sort of consequences the USA faced in Vietnam.   A Vietnam-style quagmire might well be in the interests of an Iranian people long since fed up with an incompetent, corrupt and brutal regime ruled by religious fanatics in their own interests.  In this case most of ... Continue reading »

The quote above is satire not fact but reflects reality.    Whether dealing with hard-line, uncompromising GOP ideologues in Congress or with an enemy who has walked into a potential trap abroad, Obama's first and most persistent impulse is always the same: Bow and scrape, then beg once again.  In Syria at present, he demonstrates a total lack of s ... Continue reading »

Part I : REGIME ‘GAINS' HAVE BEEN MINISCULE DESPITE TWO EXTREMELY TEMPORARY ADVANTAGESFor two weeks Assad has benefited by two possibly one-time advantages that allowed him to launch offensives otherwise impossible due to permanent and irreversible domestic manpower shortages. The first was an influx of up to 60,000 volunteers—both Hezbollah and ot ... Continue reading »

Although the regime denies it, rebels have captured Abil village near Homs and provided videos to prove it. http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/syria-homs-videos-of-the-rebel-capture-of/   Abil’s location between Homs and Al Quysar is a strategic one and threatens the regime’s efforts in the latter town.  In Homs itself, rebels reportedly ... Continue reading »

(Note: Things are moving so fast in Damascus and the news so big that I felt this deserved a lead posts.  For info on what preceded it, check out the messages under my last post.   Things just keep developing.  You'll also learn that the defecting pilot who allegedly has produced chaos at Mennagh airbase in Aleppo has been identified).     Eyewitne ... Continue reading »

X (tazi-morocco reports that the commander of Mennagh international airport has been killed today.  A citizen journalist like tazi-morocco would gain nothing by making it up and stand to lose substantial credibility in short order if its not true. Indirect confirmation that the rebels are making substantial progress at the base is suggested also by ... Continue reading »

It’s time for Obama to get off his knees and act. It's time to forget chemical redlines and do something.  Enough is enough!   Upset by a successful rebel attack on a regime barracks, Assad retaliated by slaughtering residents of a nearby village.  Rebels had overrun an army barracks and killed and injured a dozen troops.   This pattern is modeled ... Continue reading »

Some weeks ago Enduring America suggested the academy was the key to the battle for Aleppo. Now Markito0171 reports that rebels have overrun or captured an engineering battalion, capturing a T-72 tank, DSHk, many light weapons  and ammunition. He reports that rebels killed 40 of Assad soldiers & captured 15.If so the rebels should have obtained a c ... Continue reading »

Rebels have been knocking off Brigadier Generals like flies. The latest was Sharif Ali Al-Shawah who was killed in Garah on April 29 according to a regime announcement.   Rebel reports say 104 troops died in just four locations: 39 east of Hama, 19 in in Salah al-Din & Hamdania (Aleppo), 18 the northern outskirts of Kherbet Ghazalah where a BMP was ... Continue reading »