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NICOSIA — The Syrian military has begun firing newly-acquired
Iranian missiles toward Sunni rebel targets.

Western intelligence sources said the Syrian military has been firing
advanced Iranian surface-to-surface missiles toward rebel strongholds in
central and northern Syria. The sources said the short-range missiles were
far more accurate than Syria’s huge arsenal of unguided rockets.

“This could be a game-changer and reverse rebel gains,” an intelligence
source said.

The sources said the missiles were believed to include the Fateh-110
missile. They said Fateh-110 marked an accurate solid-fuel weapon with a range of more than 200 kilometers.

The Syrian military began firing the Fateh-110 and other advanced
Iranian weapons earlier this month. The sources said the regime of President Bashar Assad sought to drive out rebels from their strongholds around such cities as Aleppo, Homs and Damascus.

In late 2012, the Assad regime approved the firing of the Scud-B
ballistic missile toward rebel strongholds in the north near the border with Turkey. But the sources said the Scuds, regarded as inaccurate, failed to roll back rebel gains.

The Fateh-110 firing was being assisted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps, the sources said. They said IRGC, with a force of some 10,000
in Syria, was responsible for the delivery, deployment and maintenance of
the new weapons.

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