70,000+ Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Forces in Syria

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The US Tower 22 base at the intersection of Jordan, Syria and Iraq was attacked and three US soldiers were killed and dozens were seriously injured. US Air Force and military mobilization to the Middle East is happening now. There was already deployment of the some of the US Navy and thousands of marines. The minimal US military objectives will be to deter the 160 attacks made by Iranian backed forces over the last three months and to make commercial shipping via the Persian Gulf secure.

In 2023, an Iranian major general close to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has estimated that the IRGC (Iran’s Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards) had created 82 fighting units in Syria since the beginning of its intervention, amounting to some 70,000 armed men.

There are reports from 2010 that the Houthi Rebels had about 100,000 to 120,000 armed men. As of 2015, the group is reported to have attracted new supporters from outside their traditional demographics.

Tehran’s axes of intervention in Syria are:
1) To protect the Shi`a minorities in Syria;
2) to create a corridor to the shores of the Mediterranean by eliminating the American presence; and
3) to create the conditions for an encirclement maneuver of the Israeli state if necessary, pre-positioning men and military equipment on the outskirts of the Golan Heights without opening fire on Israeli positions.

There is no time limit on any of the objectives. It is not a question of conquering an area and then withdrawing as soon as peace is signed. The Quds Force wants to establish Pax Irania in Syria and in all the countries of the Axis of Resistance.

Before being killed in a U.S. strike, the then Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani declared in 2018: “The IRGC has a structure, statutes, rules and regulations, but in reality [it is] an intellectual system” in which every action is sacred. The aim of Soleimani was summarized as: to create opportunities out of dark crises.

Iran has forces and militia in Iraq.

11 thoughts on “70,000+ Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Forces in Syria”

  1. Islam is a uncompromising totalitarian theocratic dictatorship. It is not a religion. It is an absolute governing entity and all others are subjugate. Israel understands their survival is at stake. Individual Islamic countries are irrelevant when it comes to the overall goal of Islamic world domination and elimination of Israel, Jews included.
    We now have Atomic Islam thanks to Joe, Barak, Bill and other “Nevil Chamberlin’s. Israel has said through a number of leaders including Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran will never get the “bomb”.
    This current conflict ends in war against Iran.

  2. Iran is going to stretch itself too thin. I doubt there’s as much support for a theocratic dictatorship, especially trying to push one out to other regions that won’t want one, as the leaders have allowed themselves to believe.

    TLDR: It’s not going to work, whether anyone likes it or not.

  3. The biggest mistake we made in the ME in this century was to defeat and depose Saddam Husein. Husein was the best counter-force to Iran in the ME, and he basically fought against them for free – without American help. Saudi Arabia is not culturally able or willing to sacrifice 100s of 1000s of young men to battle Iran, like Husein’s Iraq was. No other country feels invested enough to do it either, at least not yet. So Iran is creeping into influence in almost every country not aligned with Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Jordan, and even in these, they can take advantage of terrorist factions against the respective governments.
    Proxies of Iran are well known now, but who is going to risk world condemnation to fight them, aside from Israel, who is suffering an existential war and has no choice?
    Israel, like Ukraine, is battling a coalition of Evil – including some of the same players, like Iran and Russia (also present in Syria). Today’s faux progressives should get a clue to what would be lost in the worldwide caliphate Iran and other Islamic forces want for them.

    • Although I wouldn’t completely trust the pedigree of cephalopod neuroscience shared on Wikipedia or the discovery channel, research suggests that the individual octopus tentacles have some basal, local motor control (perhaps a sub-brain). That shouldn’t keep you from using the metaphor in relation to the Persians.

  6. I have the solution, we (the US) leave hostile countries. Sure, they will see it as a win, fine, idc.
    We need to restructure ourselves globally, we need far fewer bases abroad (including friendly countries).
    We need to stop being the worlds police when it comes to shipping lanes, we simply can not afford to continue. We should protect US flagged vessels, and close allies, only.
    Small tit for tat needs to end, if they hit a US flagged ship, or US base, they should be bombed into dust. But they would have far fewer targets to hit, if we weren’t spread out in nearly every country.
    I don’t expect ANY of this to happen under Biden. Trump…maybe, he’s being the best peace promoting President we’ve had in decades.

    • That was the way how the British empire destroyed itself.
      There is no empty space in politics. When you loose territory, others gain it. And sooner or later they will knock on your own door.
      It is allways cheaper to make war in other people’s area than yours.

      • The British Empire ended because it was unnatural for a little European island to hold domininon over greater India, much of Africa, etc. The Canadians, Australians, and other states that actually share the cultural/ethnic Anglo heritage remain aligned and have the same king. I’ll bet most Hungarian Laszlos feel it is cheaper for the Anglosphere to make war in other people’s areas.

  8. The more important question is why does the US have bases in Syria? Was it invited there by the Syrian government or is it an illegal occupying force?

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