Iran withdrew its troops from Syria under pressure from the Israeli army

Published on: 02/02/2024 – 03:53

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With our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifa

Whatever the scale of the withdrawal of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards from Syria, it is directly related to the Israeli strike and Washington’s threats of retaliation following the January 27 death of three American soldiers in Jordan in a drone strike.

CBS News announced that by the United States ” A series of strikes over several days against different targets “in this” Iranian personnel and facilities, inside Iraq and Syria », referring to CBS.

So withdrawing Iranian officials is a precautionary measure. But it can also be interpreted as a sign of de-escalation. It comes two days after an Iraqi group close to Iran announced it was suspending its attacks against American targets.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards are deploying hundreds of men to Syria under the designation of “advisors” at the request of Damascus. They are responsible for training and supervising thousands of militiamen, mostly Shiites, recruited locally or transported from Iraq and Afghanistan, to fight alongside the Syrian army. Since last December, more than half a dozen of these “consultants”, including senior managers Iranian intelligence was killed in an Israeli attack.