Talking to newsmen in Qom on Wednesday the Iranian deputy foreign minister noted that the popular demands in all the three countries have to be heeded, and that reforms are a “necessity.”
“Having an eye on the implementation of the reforms by Bashar al-Assad and considering the rights of the Syrian people, we will support the government of Syria,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was quoted by PressTV as saying.
He said the United States, Israel and some Arab governments initially believed that the Syrian government would collapse in three months, but despite all the pressure and the overt and covert foreign intervention, it past the security crisis stage.
Without naming any Arab country, which is supporting anti-government movement in Syria, but at the same time crushing similar public sentiment in Bahrain or Yemen Amir-Abdollahian further said the stance of the Islamic Republic regarding regional developments is not characterized by double standards. The deputy minister also pointed to the duplicitous position of the West regarding the developments in Syria, Egypt, and Bahrain.
It needs to be recalled that Saudi Arabia, while fully backing the anti-Assad struggle in Syria, is openly siding with the ruler of Bahrain in crushing the popular movement. In fact it is even supporting Bahrain militarily.
What is ironically is that while in Syria the ruling Assad regime’s crackdown is being dubbed as Shia move to crush the Sunni dominated people of the country in Bahrain it is being dubbed as Shia conspiracy against the ruling Sunni regimes of the region.
What the western and Arab propagandists tend to ignore is that it is none else, but Rafat al-Assad, brother and the then right hand man of late President, Hafez-al-Assad, and uncle of Bashar-al- Assad, who is one of those openly opposing his nephew’s regime. Obviously he too is an Alwite.
There is no doubt that Syria is ruled by a dictator, but so are all the Gulf countries. If Syria alone is singled out it would amount to kettle calling pot black. The West wants to get an excuse and intervene in Syria and in the process crush Hamas, which enjoy support of Syria, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Iran. Fomenting trouble in Syria has Israeli angle too.
