Iran: Death Toll of the IRGC and Its Mercenaries in Syria Is More Than Ten Thousand/ Maryam Rajavi: Aleppo Will Rise Once Again in Freedom and Prosperity Despite What the Criminals Have Done

 Iran: Death Toll of the IRGC and Its Mercenaries in Syria Is More Than Ten Thousand
NCRI Statements/Wednesday, 30 November 2016

 Security and Anti-terrorism Committee
Names of 69 IRGC forces – Brigadier and IRGC forces-Colonels killed in Syria
According to Mullah Seyyed Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahallati, Khamenei’s representative in “Martyrs and Veterans affairs foundation” and Rouhani’s deputy, the number of IRGC forces killed in the Syria war is more than one thousand. In a seminar on the occasion of “Bassij Week” he stressed: “Number of our country’s martyrs defending the holy shrine has exceeded one thousand and we owe all of them. (Tasnim- the terrorist Quds force daily -Nov. 22, 2016)

According to the report by the Iranian Resistance from inside the country, the number of losses of IRGC forces and its Lebanese, Afghan, Pakistani, Iraqi and other mercenaries under their command are more than ten thousand. According to the IRGC’s internal report, in order to prevent the leaking of the extent of the casaulties and its social negative impacts, the corpses of most of Afghan, Pakistani and Iraqi mercenaries of the regime who are killed in Syria are not returned to Iran. The corpses of Lebanese mercenaries are all buried in Lebanon or Syria. By the number of IRGC’s commanders killed in the war against the Syrian people, one could imagine the extent of the regime’s casaulties. The following are the names of 39 IRGC Brigadiers, 28 IRGC Colonels and two colonels of the army under Khamenei’s command who were killed in Syria.

IRGC Brigadiers: Hassan Shateri, Seid Hamid Tabatabaei Mehr, Haj Esmaeel Heidari, Mohammad Jamal Pa Ghalehei, Dadollah Sheibani, Jaber Darisavi, Mohammad Ali Aliabadi, Alireza Tavassoli, Hossein badpa, Hadi Kajbaf, rousbeh Helisiaei, Haj Abdollah Eskandari, Mohammad Ali Allahabadi, Ezzatollah Soleimani, Farshad Hosseini-nejad, Abdolreza Majiri, Hossein Fadaei, SaeedSayyah Taheri, Sattar Orang, Hassan Razzaghi, Hamidreza Ansari, Ahmad Majdi Nasab, Haj Ali Ghorbani, Reza farzaneh, Hassan Ali Shamsabadi, Mohsen Ghajarian, Masha-allah Shamseh, Javad dourbin, Seid Shafi Shafiei, Jahangir Jafarnia, Mohammad Hassan Hakimi, Reza Rostami Moghaddam, Ahmad Gholami, Daryoush Dorosti, Mostafa Rashidpour, Akbar Nazari, Hossein Alikhani, Gholamreza Samaei and Zaker Heidari.

IRGC Colonels: Amir Reza Alizadeh, Heshmatollah Sohrabi, Abbas Abdullahi, Ghasem Gharib, Karim Qavabesh, Moslem Khizab, Mostafa Sadrzadeh, Esmaeel Khanzadeh, Mohammadreza Ali-Khani, Abdulreza Roshvand, Mohammad Tahan, Sattar Mahmoudi, Ghasem teimouri, morteza Torabi Kamel, Asghar Falahat Pisheh, Hamzeh Kazemi, Abdulhossein Saadatkhah, Ahmad Goodarzi, Mohsen Mandani, Ali Taheri Tarshizi, Saeed Shamloo, Mohammad Balbasi, Rahim Kaboli, Ali Mansouri, Ghodratollah Abdian, Morteza Ataee, Adel Saad and Mohammadreza Zare Alvani, and also two colonel of the army under command of Khamenei called Morteza Zarhoon and Mojtaba Zolfaghar Nasab.

High casualties in Syria has sparked a wave of discontent among their families, and the IRGC attempts to dispatch young people, students, employees and workers to Syria has fomented people’s hatred against this war. People consider the regime’s casualties in Syria as a reminder of eight-year war with Iraq.

Mullahs’ inattention to the families of the killed, especially the Afghans, has imposed additional suffering on their families. They even delay treatment of injured and disabled Afghans who have returned from war.

Escalation of public’s disgust has even resulted in protests by some of the regime’s factions against the war in Syria. Mostafa Tajerzadeh writes in this regard, “We had an intervention in Syria full of loss with little profit… no country has had so much casualties in Syria as Iran…Despite the toll, we are accused of killing the Syrian people and pursuing sectarianism. Our credibility is damaged, and every day we go deeper into the Syrian quagmire.”

Mehdi Khazali said on September 11, “Wasn’t the eight-year war (with Iraq) enough, now we have been fighting in Syria for five years; it was a mistake and shouldn’t happen, and I have said this many times before…In fact the war has occurred and we are engaged in this quagmire, and we are engaged with the issue of ISIS which was created due to mismanagement of Haj Ghasem Soleimani. Hadn’t he done this, there wouldn’t have been ISIS…this is the mistake of Haj Ghasem Soleimani.”
Security and Anti-terrorism Commission of the National Council of Resistance of Iran/November 29, 2016

 Maryam Rajavi: “…Aleppo Will Rise Once Again in Freedom and Prosperity Despite What the Criminals Have Done to Syria…”
Wednesday, 30 November 2016 /NCRI

A conference was held on Saturday, November 26, in Paris, in the presence of Maryam Rajavi. Following is a part of this speech about Syria.
Dear friends,
Today, Khamenei has increasingly and deeply tied the fate of his corrupt regime to the carnage haunting the people of Syria. He tried in vain to justify the regime’s aggression and bloodshed under the pretext of defending the Holy Shrine (of Hazrat Zeinab). Now, he is failing to unite even the internal factions of the regime over the continuation of this filthy war.
The war in Syria has nothing to do with the people of Iran and their national interests.

You heard chants of thousands of Iranians in their demonstrations commemorating Cyrus the Great in Pasargadae, who cried out, “I want to sacrifice my life for Iran, not the Gaza Strip, not Lebanon!” Because everyone knows that Khamenei’s warmongering in Iraq, Syria and Yemen is only intended to maintain the veil of repression over Iran and to preserve the rule of the Velayat-e Faqih regime.

I reiterate that, in diametric opposition to the mullahs, we and our people stand side-by-side with the courageous and honorable people of Syria. We consider their innocent children as our own and we feel their pain and suffering. We shed tears for their devastated cities. We are restless because they are homeless. We see ourselves as the citizens of the blood-drenched Aleppo.
Aleppo is one of the centers of civilization, which is now persevering under horrifying bombardments in continuation of its 6000-year legacy. Aleppo is the epitome of suffering and endurance of our human world; and Aleppo will rise once again in freedom and prosperity despite what the criminals have done to Syria and despite the shameful policies of appeasement.
Syria is not alone. Syria lives in the hearts of the people of the world and no doubt it will triumph and it will be liberated.

Dear friends,
As for the present crisis in the region, any solution seeking to end war and instability and to address the problem of Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) in particular must factor in the need for ending the regime’s meddling in the region and especially in Syria. Nothing is more catastrophic than cooperating with the Iranian regime in the fight against Daesh. This would only strengthen the Iranian regime and support its terrorism while nourishing Daesh politically and socially.

The fight against Daesh is inseparable from fighting the mullahs and the IRGC. The more the mullahs are pushed back, the closer Daesh will come to its demise.
We urge all nations and states in the Middle East to evict the Iranian regime from the entire region. We also caution Western governments against giving any form of assistance to the crisis-riddled regime of Iran. We advise them against acting as a crutch for the crumbling Iranian regime by cutting deals with the IRGC. Instead, they should recognize the Iranian people’s Resistance for regime change, freedom and democracy….

The day of freedom for the people of Iran and the day of peace and tranquility for the region is within reach.
Hail to the Iranian people;
Hail to the martyrs;
Hail to freedom.