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Syria will not fall with Iranian alliance: Cleric
2012-04-27
[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian holy man has underscored Tehran's support for Damascus
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
, saying Syria will not fall as long as the Islamic Theocratic Republic is allied with it.

"As long as the Islamic Theocratic Republic is standing by Syria, the government of this country will not collapse," member of the presiding board of Iran's Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said on Thursday.

The senior Iranian holy man added, however, that Iran's support for the Syrian regime does not denote the Islamic Theocratic Republic's approval of every measure taken by Damascus.

"Iran seriously demands reforms in Syria, such that the recent elections and other reformist measures in Syria have all been [taken] under the Islamic Theocratic Republic's encouragement," he added.

Ayatollah Khatami said the reason why Iran supports Syria is that the West is taking Dire Revenge™ on the country for the Islamic Awakenings, the Islamic Revolution of Iran, and Leb's resistance movement of Hezbullies.

"Western imperialism is dispatching weaponry to the Syrian opposition, which is disgraceful, and of course the Islamic Theocratic Republic will not allow their agendas to bear fruit," he added.

Syria has been the scene of unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.

The West and the Syrian opposition blame Damascus for the year-long turmoil, but the government says the "terrorists" are responsible for the unrest, which it says is being orchestrated from abroad.
Posted by:Fred

#2  TOPIX > [Lucianne] SPECULATION GROWS [Leading] IRAN CLERIC WILL LEAD IRAQ'S SHIITES. Fear of Iran attempting to extend its theocratic, hence political, system = influence + conrol to Iraq.

"CREEPING IRANIANS/PERSIANISM"???

* SAME > WIRED: USAF QUIETLY ASSEMBLING NEAR IRAN, vee "cannnot be confirmed or denied" F-22 + Air NG F-15E deployments to locales + world regions that are weirdly + mysteriously, but only PCorrectly coincidentally, not too far from Iran???

versus

* SAME > THE TURKISH NUCLEAR THREAT | REAL NUCLEAR THREAT TO NEAR EAST [ + Caucasus + Central Asia -Stans] IS EXPANSION-MINDED TURKEY, NOT [Zionist Imperialist] ISRAEL OR [Islamist, neo-Persianist] IRAN.

Secular, already Japan Nuke Model-esque TURKEY more geopol Wily + Nuke-dangerous than Islamist, We-want-be-like-Japan Nuke Model-esque Rising Iran???

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > STANLEY WEISS: IRAN IS TO INDIA LIKE PAKISTAN IS TO US.

D ***NG IT, WE'RE ALL THE BEST OF FRENEMIES!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-04-27 23:00  

#1  Al-Arabiya + YouTube have a Video showing Syrian soldiers burying an activist ALIVE - the vid is going viral around the Net.

IMO 'tis another test for the "OBAMA DOCTRINE"???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-04-27 00:57  

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