He refuses to divulge what a potential deduction would be on Trinchera, which already has tax credits for its agriculturaloperation, but says it will be somewhere in the neighborhood of what he spent to save it from the transmission line.
Backed by Iranian and Hezbollah military advisers, the regime is focused on cutting off rebel supply lines into the city from the north and south, and breaking the vast agricultural suburbs of Damascus into smaller theaters of operation that the military can easily besiege, say regime officials.