Twenty three members of the Iranian regime’s forces from the small city of Varamin, south-east of Tehran, have been killed in Syria, an official of the mullahs’ regime has said.
On Friday, May 20, the Mehr news agency, affiliated to the regime’s Intelligence Ministry, quoted Amir Pour-Javadi, head of the regime’s Foundation for Martyrs of Varamin City, as saying that the city had thus far offered "23 martyrs who defended the sacred shrine."
In the 2011 census, Varamin’s population was recorded at 220,000. The overall population of Iran was recorded at a little more than 75 million at the time. If the city’s casualty rate were to be taken as a sample of the Iranian regime’s overall losses in Syria, it would mean that the casualty tally at a national level would range in the thousands.
The Iranian regime has deployed tens of thousands of its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and affiliated foreign militias to Syria to fight in support of Dictator Assad who is massacring the Syrian people. It describes this action as an attempt to “defend the sacred shrines.” This is while most of the Iranian regime’s casualties are in the Aleppo region which is almost 300 kilometers away from the holy Shiite shrines near Damascus.
The Iranian regime has made a concerted effort over recent years to keep secret the official tally of its casualties in Syria’s war which has been raging for the past five years. In recent weeks, however, there have been numerous signs which point to a high casualty rate. In one example, the Iranian regime’s forces around the strategic town of Khan Tuman suffered heavy blows from Syrian opposition fighters on May 6 in the battles in southern Aleppo.
Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Saturday said: "The mullahs’ regime is afraid of announcing its true casualty rate in Syria out of fear of a public backlash resulting in its further isolation at home. But all the news and signs point to the regime’s casualty rate in Syria being far higher than previous estimates. One can confidently say that the mullahs have lost thousands of their forces in Syria."
"Syria has transformed into a strategic deadlock and quagmire for Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the mullahs’ regime. Despite deploying more than 70,000 IRGC forces, foreign militias and more recently its Regular Army and pouring in the Iranian nation’s wealth into supporting Syria’s dictator, the mullahs have failed to score a strategic victory and guarantee the survival of Assad’s regime. Khamenei believes the only solution is to become ever more embroiled in the conflict in Syria but in this crisis they have no way back and no way forward.
As the Iranian regime’s officials have repeatedly acknowledged, Assad’s fall from power is a ’red line’ for the mullahs who see their grip on Syria as a strategic lifeline. The regime’s casualty rate in Syria is however increasing with each passing day," he added.
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
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