According to regional security sources, Iran established two operations rooms (operations rooms) a few weeks ago, one in Iraq and the other in the town of Badita  near the Syrian-Lebanon border, in order to closely monitor the situation on the ground in Syria.

According to the sources, since the fall of the Assad regime, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are interested in leaving hundreds of officers from Division 4 and the military intelligence services in Lebanon and Iraq, given their ability to communicate with many of the former elements who were associated with them, and their knowledge of the places where Assad's weapons were stored before the fall.

The latest moves, led by Brigadier General Ghaith Dalla, commander of the 4th Division, who has close ties to Lebanese Hezbollah, were coordinated with Hezbollah, which recently transferred some support to the coastal areas through the Homs governorate, taking advantage of the fragile security situation.

As for the financial funding, it comes from Iraqi factions loyal to Iran, as large sums of money were transferred from Iraq to Beirut last February under the guise of sending delegations to participate in the condolences for the death of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The Syrian government, for its part, has been trying in recent times to obtain lists of the names of the officers present in Iraq, and the Iraqi government has indeed shown some kind of response, as it intended to provide Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Shabani with details of these officers. 

However, the cancellation of the Syrian minister's visit due to security threats prevented this, as the pro-Iranian factions in Iraq deliberately launched direct threats against the Syrian government before the visit, in an attempt to prevent the development of relations between the Syrian and Iraqi governments, in accordance with instructions from Iran.

NEWSRAEL: The source of the recent chaos in Syria, including the massacre of Alawite supporters of Assad, can be found in Tehran.