The Russians are giving Assad regime all the weapons he needs and the Mullas are providing all the military might that he wants to continue killing Syrians, they are talking about diplomacy and no foreign intervention. Good luck with that! Apparently this is a clip of a series of video recording that were obtained from the dead embedded Iranian filming Iranian and Syrian forces fighting the rebels. Published on September 12th, 2013 | by Joanna Paraszczuk, Scott Lucas FEATURED VIDEO: A clip from Iranian filmmaker Esmail Heydari's unfinished documentary CONCLUSIONS 1. Raw footage taken from an Iranian documentary-maker, Esmail Heydari, killed on August 22 in Syria, shows at least four Iranian personnel with pro-regime, Arabic-speaking Shia forces at a small military facility in Aleppo's southern countryside. It is unknown when the video was made, but it was likely in the days just before August 22. 2. Al Jazeera obtained the raw footage from the insurgent brigade Suqoor Ash Sham Liwa Dawood, which according to a video posted on its YouTube channel overran a small military facility held by pro-regime Shia brigade Liwa Abu Fadhal al-Abbas on August 22. Liwa Dawood says its fighters killed those present, including Heydari whom it named and mistakenly identified as the brigade's "commander", most likely finding an Iranian ID on Heydari's corpse. Liwa Dawood's clips of its fighters overrunning the military facility: After overrunning the military facility, the brigade also found Heydari's camera and documentary footage. The brigade posted the videos onto its YouTube page. It contacted Al Jazeera sometime after that, but definitely before September 9, when the Al Jazeera Arabic version of the report was published. Subsequently, six of the video clips were made "private"; however, blogger Brown Moses, who had downloaded them, re-posted them as a playlist (see below). What does the footage obtained from Heydari's camera show? We do not have all of the raw footage that Liwa Dawood obtained from Heydari's camera. The footage that we do have consists of several clips, which we describe below. One appears to show a couple of Iranian officers overseeing a training exercise, with a small number of fighters, some limited radio communications. There is no evidence that the Iranians are commanding "operations", and there appear to be no Iranian "fighters", i.e. ground troops, alongside the Shia pro-regime soldiers. The broadcasts by Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English exaggerated and distorted the videos when they claimed, "The Iranians are the ones calling the shots in [the] war...giving orders where to fight and when...." Notably, Al Jazeera English does not say that Heydari is a documentary maker, and it wrongly identifies him as a "fighter", mis-translating at least one of his statements in the raw footage. It uses him, incorrectly, in the highly exaggerated claim, "The video shows just how in control the Iranian fighters are....It is clear once again that Assad's army has little say about what goes on." http://eaworldview.com/2013/09/syria-special-irans-military-assads-forces-al-jazeera-what-raw-videos-really-show/?utm_source=rss&utm;_medium=rss&utm;_campaign=syria-special-irans-military-assads-forces-al-jazeera-what-raw-videos-really-show

• published: 12 Sep 2013
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