The battle for Aleppo, the largest Syrian city, or what is left of it, is intensifying. With the bombardment by Russian and Syrian air force bombers, the combined ground forces of the murderous Syrian Battists, military personnel dispatched from Iran and their terrorist houseboy Lebanese Hezbollah are closing in on the encircled city.

Aside the piled up bodies of unarmed Syrian children, women and men, the tempo of returning body-bags of soldiers, paramilitary and mercenaries to Iran has speeded up. It is Iran's Vietnam. 

Above is from the series of blogs on many foreign wars the unreformable, expansionist and warmongering Islamist fascists have imposed on Iranians and other nations.

Now that the Russian intervention on the side of the murderous child-killing Battists and Islamist fascists dispatched from Iran has succeeded to keep Assad in his hereditary presidency, Financial Times reports:

Iran faces uphill battle to profit from its role in Syria war. It has poured billions of dollars and hundreds of lives into bolstering President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Yet Iran may struggle for a return on its investment in Syria.

On paper, the Iranian government and entities linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps have been granted big economic prizes in Syria — a memorandum of understanding to run a mobile phone operator and a role in one of its most lucrative phosphate mines.

It has been given agricultural lands, and plans to develop university branches. But businessmen and diplomats in Syria say implementing those agreements has been stalled by regime officials more eager to attract Russian and Chinese business — and wary of Tehran’s ambitions to increase its influence.
Businessmen and diplomats in Damascus say regime officials and low-level bureaucrats have sought to gum up Iranian efforts by requesting more paperwork and further discussions.

“They feel like the Iranians want to meddle in everything, so it’s worth it for the Syrians to try to wait them out,” one diplomat said.

Despite its regional might, Tehran can do little to exert pressure, one Syrian businessman argued, given his country’s importance to Iran’s regional strategy: “What can the Iranians threaten us with? To withdraw? The Iranians are stuck with us — and the regime knows it.”

In other words; on top of  gaining many, many enemies for Iran and Iranian people, the Islamist fascists have pissed away all the blood and treasure they’ve spent on the murderous Syrian Battist child-killers.

Airtight sanctions, a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.