Iran’s Tel Afar op is in sync with Russia in Syria
DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. October 30, 2016, 5:41 PM (IDT)
The pro-Iranian Iraqi Shiite drive to capture Tel Afar, 55 km from Mosul in western Iraq, was designed less to complete the encirclement of the Islamists in Mosul and more to forge a link in the land bridge Tehran aspires to build to give its Revolutionary Guards free passage to Hizballah and the Shiite groups fighting for Bashar Assad in Syria. This is reported by debkafile’s military and intelligence sources.
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Source: http://www.debka.com/article/25749/Iran%E2%80%99s-Tel-Afar-op-is-in-sync-with-Russia-in-Syria
