The Revolutionary Guards reach deep in their fight to save Assad. Iran’s covert operations chief Qassem Soleimani is back in Syria and beaming for the cameras according to photos of the selfie-prone Quds Force commander released this week. But it’s not all smiles for the troops in Syria under his command. Iran has now become the ground army fighting to save its embattled ally Bashar al-Assad, while Russia has become his air force. And while two conventional militaries ranged, by land and by air, against a consortium of insurgencies ought to be faring well, in the last month, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been hemorrhaging casualties. So far, they’ve lost third lieutenants all the way up...
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