Iran out of Syria
Shahriar Kia "Riyadh Daily"
Iran out of Syria
Syria’s Assad regime using chemical weapons against innocent civilians,
shocked many around the world. Withered bodies of innocent children,
shown on TV, tormented to death by chemical gas, passed a message to all
human rights activists of the world.
Despite the fact that we live in the 21st century, the brutal vulgarity
of the Middle Ages remains still. Desire for revenge arose against a
dictator that has already taken half a million lives to sustain his
throne is very much alive.
In response, the strikes against Assad’s chemical sites by U.S., Britain
and France were welcomed by public opinion the world over.
Nevertheless, despite all the excitement, the end resulted in the
unpleasant policy of appeasement allowing the real perpetrators to walk
free.
The Ayatollahs sitting in Tehran, who have kept Assad on his feet, simply got away.
On different occasions, Iranian regime officials have defined their
meddling in Syria and other neighboring countries as means to keep the
danger away from their own borders.
Iran’s interfering in neighboring countries has become more evident in
the past decade. On February 4th, 2018, the Arab-language Sky News TV
broadcasted an interview with Deputy Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) chief
General Hossein Salami.
“The two armies of Iraq and Syria are considered the depth of Iran’s
strategy,” he said. “It is not logical for a country to close its
security circle inside its borders. The best strategy is to fight the
enemy at a distance.”
A few days before that Ali Kabar Velayati, a close adviser to Iranian
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, told the same TV station that his country’s
influence in the region was definite and they would not step down.
“Iran is trying to be the major effective force in the Middle East,” he
said. “If it was not for Iran’s assistance, the two countries (Syria and
Iraq) would have collapsed.”
In an earlier occasion Velayati had said, “Should we have not provided
aid to the Iraqi and Syrian people, we would face a conflict worse than
the (1980-88) war with Iraq. The enemy had come as close as 20 km from
our borders and we pushed them back up to 50 km.”
A reason proving that the Iranian regime is behind the growth of chaos
and instability in the region can be found in the words of Mohammad
Golpaygani, a secretary to the Supreme Leader.
In January he claimed that IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Suleimani was
preparing and organizing suicide volunteers to be dispatched on missions
abroad.
Tehran’s officials, from time to time, have acknowledged their military
presence in the region. On November 23, 2017, Khamenei said in a long
speech, “The Islamic Republic of Iran would rush to the support needed
anywhere for the fight against heresy and arrogance”.
Last year in January, Iran’s official news agency quoted the Defense
Minister, General Amir Rahimi saying, “Tehran considers itself
responsible for the people of the region.”
The Ayatollahs have defined their meddling in Iraq and Syria as the “fight against terrorism.”
In 2016, IRGC chief Mohammad Ali Jafari revealed details of Iran’s
military presence in the Middle East, bragging that 200,000 troops
IRGC-associated troops were spread throughout five countries.
In a 2015 speech marking 1979 revolution anniversary, President Hassan
Rouhani said, “Iran has helped establish security in Iraq, Syria,
Lebanon and Yemen.”
Those who suffer most from the Ayatollahs’ meddling in Syria are the nations of Iran and Syria.
In a conference in Paris organized by the Iranian opposition National
Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), senior Syrian opposition figure
George Sabra said, “The paws of fundamentalism, sectarian and terrorism
is in Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut ad Sana, while its head is in Tehran.”
Speaking at the same conference NCRI President Maryam Rajavi said,
“Khamenei and IRGC commanders have repeatedly said should they not fight
in Syria and Iraq they have to line up in Tehran, Hamedan and Isfahan…
Despite all the repression and arrests they have imposed on the society,
the people’s uprising has put them in a constant state of horror.”
Rajavi urged the European Union to insist on the expulsion of the IRGC
and its proxies from Syria and other countries in the region, as well as
to stop Iran’s missile programs.
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