'Iran aiding Assad in crackdown against protesters'
Jerusalem Post / Oren Kessler
28-May-2011


G8 "appalled at" Syrian violence; deputy minister for Galilee Ayoub Kara says Syrian opposition asked for Israel’s help, PM refused.


Iran has sent training staff and advisers, including members of the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force, to help Syria crack down on its 10-week-old popular uprising, the Washington Post reported Friday. 

The assistance reportedly includes not only arms and riot great, but advanced surveillance equipment to help Damascus monitor citizens’ Facebook and Twitter accounts, the newspaper reported, quoting two US officials and a foreign diplomat. The diplomat said the military  >>>

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