Tactical Change Or Withdrawal? Iran’s Syria Strategy Amid Reports Of Force Reductions – Analysis
By Golnaz Esfandiari*
(RFE/RL) — Some nine years after Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) deployed military advisers and fighters to Syria to prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, Israeli and U.S. officials have said Tehran is reducing its presence in Syria.
Analysts told RFE/RL that...