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Substantial number of iranian ground fighters and hezbollah fighters are positioning themselves for what may be a major assault in aleppo. it comes on the heels of new russian air strikes that have hit targets in syria's largest city. aleppo has seen some of the most intense fighting in years. retaking the city by assad would be a boon for his regime and it's something that was thought to be impossible just a few months ago. joining me now, jim miklaszewski. the iranians with the ground assault, what the russians are doing, aleppo's been basically divided, some isis, some rebel fighters of ass...

There are thousands of lebanese hezbollah to be joined by as many as a thousand iranian forces that will be attacking the city from the north and the east. meantime, syrian forces will be attacking from the west and the south. so essentially, what they're going to try to do is squeeze aleppo and retake it. all of this of course while the russians are conducting air strikes with aircraft. and these were the targets that were laid out by those cruise missiles that were launched by russia last week. so it's fairly evident, according to officials, that the attempt here is to retake ale o aleppo. w...