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Russia: NATO close to military steps
in Syria for beachhead to attack Iran


DEBKAfile Special Report August 5, 2011


Russia's NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin

Twelve hours after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned Assad he faced a "sad fate" if he failed to introduce reforms, Moscow's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin accused the Western alliance of planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the Assad regime "with the long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran."

In an interview published by Izvestia Friday, Aug. 5, the knowledgeable and high-placed Rogozin added: "This statement means that the planning [of the military campaign] is well underway. It could be a logical conclusion of those military and propaganda operations, which have been carried out by certain Western countries against North Africa."

Thursday, as the Syrian military crackdown in Hama reached a new level of ferocity with public executions in the town square, the Russian president warned Assad: "We are watching how the situation is developing. It's changing and our approach is changing as well."

debkafile's Moscow sources note that the Rogozin added Yemen to his remarks on NATO: He said he agreed with the opinion that Syria and later Yemen could be NATO's last steps on the way to launching an attack on Iran.

"The noose around Iran is tightening," he said. "Military planning against Iran is underway. And we are certainly concerned about an escalation of a large-scale war in
this huge region."

The Russian envoy made a point of citing NATO, never once mentioning the United States in his remarks. However, they were definitely meant to clarify to Washington that Moscow is fully updated on the next American military steps in the Middle East and Persian Gulf.

debkafile's military sources add: The Libyan campaign taught NATO that without US military strength, alliance members were incapable of defeating even a small army on the scale of Muammar Qaddafi's six brigades, much less muster the ground, air and sea forces for striking Syria and Iran. The only power with the requisite military strength is the United States, which was therefore the unspoken address of Rogozin's warning.

Russian diplomats have repeatedly cautioned Tehran that it incurs the danger of American attack on its nuclear facilities. Now Syria has been included. Rogozin remarked that having "learned the Libyan lesson, Russia will continue to oppose a forcible resolution of the situation in Syria."

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Russia has reason to be concerned about attacks on Iran, since Iran shares a border with Iran. Syria is a mess, and it looks like Assad will be gone soon. I do not see the US invading Syria or Iran. Debkafiles seems obsessed with this, but they tend to be wrong.

Russia is having elections soon. Russians, like Americans, are somewhat obsessed with their country's military strength, and probably with greater reason.
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since Iran shares a border with Iran.

uh?

Debkafiles seems obsessed with this, but they tend to be wrong

So it is Debka not the Russian official that stated what he did?
Booogie Oooogie Boogie Man Debka!
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
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No, the fact is that any time that anyone says one word about a conflict with Iran, debkafiles is there to parrot them. Debkafiles does not mention that Russia is having an election soon, or the attitude of Russians towards the US, which dominated Iran for decades and would love to do so again.


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No, the fact is that any time that anyone says one word about a conflict with Iran, debkafiles is there to parrot them.

You make no sense.
A major Russian official speaks of war & the current situation in Syria
and somehow Debka is the boogie-man?
Your default mode is to always demonize the messenger.
Of course an article noting a Russian officials comments
this week is not going to go into the history of Russia
and Iran.
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Debkafiles is simply a pro Zionist propaganda arm, I do not blame them for Assad's atrocities.

Unrest in Iran or attacks on Iran are of greater concern to Russians than to Americans, because Russia has a common border with Iran, and several groups in the Russian Federation that have cultural and linguistic ties to Persian, Azeri, Turkmen and other Iranian nationalities.

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Debkafiles is simply a pro Zionist propaganda arm,

And MSNBC is simply a pro Obama propaganda arm...so what?
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That would be a valid criticism MAYBE if it were true... and if I constantly barraged this forum with crap from MSNBC, which I do not watch. But I don't, so it isn't.
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    I don't get the impression that Russians understand Americans well.

    I think it quite likely that Syria willfind itself under sanction, and Europes enthusiasm for the embargo will determine how effective it becomes.

      Invasion is less likely, with the budget like it is.

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I agree completely. I do not see the US invading Syria.

Syrians dislike the US for supporting Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, by inaction if not by actual policy statement.

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