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Iran has the US between Iraq and a hard place in the Middle East.
The operation included Sukhoi-30SM and Sukhoi-35S fighters and ISIL destroyed command centers.
The UN also fears a mass exodus of some 1.5 million civilians from the battered city.
Meanwhile, an Amnesty International report says US-led Coalition air raids have killed 300 in Syria.
Moscow says attacks on funerals, civilian families, hospitals and aid convoys constitute war crimes.
"Turkey cannot intervene against the threats right next to it? We will never accept this ... We don’t need permission for this, and we don’t plan on getting it."
A Taliban spokesperson said that fighters had overrun four government checkpoints on the outskirts of the city.
Nearly 4.7 million Iraqi children are in need of urgent humanitarian aid, the international agency says.
The UN estimates that there are as many as 50,000 civilians who are unable to leave the city.
The Syrian government says securing Palmyra delivers a mortal blow to ISIL.