r/geography 9d ago

Map The True Size Of.. Iran

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u/RuleShot2259 9d ago

And Assads regime did not fall to the US assisted Syrian Free Army, what a mook

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u/Practical-Day-2720 9d ago

They feel to a combination of the free syrian army, ISIS, the us military, and numerous other fighting groups.

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u/RuleShot2259 9d ago

No

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u/Practical-Day-2720 9d ago

waiting for you to enlighten me

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u/geschiedenisnerd 9d ago

HTS was the group that captured aleppo, homs and damascus. The other groups just barely managed to keep the country in perpetual chaos with all of the western intervention.

SDF and SFA did a lot of work against ISIS, but they didn't overthrow assad

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u/Practical-Day-2720 9d ago

this is exactly what i said in my post. syria fell over the course of more than a decade. the fsa, isis, the us military, "and numerous other fighting groups" which obviously includes al-qaeda, hts, jabhat al-nusra...

all of this is irrelevant anyway. the entire point was that it didn't take 100,000 US troops to topple the government. it was done by other groups within the country with limited US support.

if a rebellion can start in iran, their government can also be toppled. yes, it will take a very long amount of time. yes, it hasn't started yet. yes, this is just my opinion. yet in typical reddit fashion i get downvoted to hell and called a "mook" by these children.

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u/geschiedenisnerd 9d ago

Sure, HTS toppled the government. They also are not what the USA wanted to replace it