Saudis Won’t Dare to Send Troops to Syria: IRGC Major General Jafari Says

Major General Jafari, said this is just cheap talks, but Iran welcomes the Saudi decision if they decide to walk on this path.

On Thursday, the Saudi Defense Ministry said it stood ready to deploy ground troops to Syria to allegedly aid the US-led anti-ISIL, also known as Daesh, coalition.

Saudi regime Defence Minister has said that the armed forces of Saudi Arabia are ready for a ground operation in Syria as part of the US-led international coalition. The Saudi initiative is more like a propaganda cover for Turkey’s military activity on the border with Syria.

In reaction the head of the State Duma committee, Pavel Krasheninnikov, has warned Saudi Arabia that any troops deployment or military ground operation in Syria without the Permission of Damascus government amounts to a declaration of war.

Riyadh has been a member of the US-led coalition that has been launching airstrikes against the ISIL in Syria since September 2014, without the permission of Damascus or the United Nations.

In December 2015, Saudi Arabia started its own Muslim 34-nation coalition to fight “Islamic extremism”.

A spokeswoman for UN Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura said that she will not comment on Saudi Arabia’s decision to send ground troops to Syria and she tries to concentrate on the intra-Syrian talks.

Anastasia Levchenko — A spokeswoman for UN Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura talking to Sputnik on Friday refused to comment on Saudi Arabia’s decision to send ground troops to Syria.

Riyadh has been a nominal member of the US-led coalition that has been launching airstrikes against Daesh in Syria since September 2014, without the permission of Damascus or the United Nations. I

n December 2015, Saudi Arabia started its own Muslim 34-nation coalition to allegedly fight Islamic extremism.

Daesh or ISIL/ISIS is a Wahhabi group mentored by Saudi Arabia and has been blacklisted as a terrorist group everywhere in the world, including the United States and Russia, but Saudi Arabia.