Toppling The Regime
"All we need from NATO are two air attacks on the presidential palace to topple the regime, and we will be able to control all the Syrian cities."
This advice from Adnan Silu, formerly in charge of Syria's top-secret chemical weapons arsenal. After he had abandoned the regime of his master, President Bashar al-Assad and joined the opposition. He informed the Saudi-based newspaper Al Sharq al-Awsat that rebels were in control of at least 60% of the country. The regime, he emphasized, is increasingly unstable.
Which description is more than adequate explanation for his abandoning the regime. No one really, truly, wants to be among the losers. Much better, far better, to celebrate with the victors. As for the non-conventional warfare chemical stockpiles, the visiting, most helpful members of Hezbollah may decide to avail themselves of the stockpiles and haul them back with them to Lebanon.
Where they might be most useful in threatening the Israelis.
Someone has to assume the responsibility of becoming responsible for those weapons of mass destruction, after all. Iran would doubtless approve. Iran would much prefer that President al-Assad remain in place, needless to say. A family that sticks together in times good and bad is one where the offspring remain hale and hearty. In the case of Iran-Syria, the offspring represent Hezbollah-Hamas.
In acknowledgement of Tehran's stake in the outcome of the Syrian revolt, former secretary general of the United Nations, in conformity with the usual UN manoeuvring, cordially invited the Islamic Republic of Iran to be involved with the search for a solution to the Syrian crisis. Just as al-Assad's inner circle is disintegrating, despite the intervention of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Kofi Annan invited Iran's participation in peace talks.
Iran is delighted to be viewed as one of the sponsors of the 'peace talks', alongside Russia and China. And Russia, loyal to its core, refuses to budge on Syria sanctions. Even while armoured vehicles in defence of the centre of Damascus from the successful infiltration of the opposition and the Free Syrian Army clashing with government troops are making Damascans very nervous indeed.
The regime continues to refuse visas to western aid workers, unable as a result to expand their humanitarian operations. Where about 1.5-million Syrians are in dire need of assistance amid the escalating violence. Aid agencies are unable to reach the hungry, desperate civilians remaining in flashpoint areas like Homs.
"We have a number of visas pending for international staff from a number of western countries - the United States, Canada, the U.K., France and one or two more - that are refused their visas because of their nationalities", according to John Ging, from the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"That is something we object to very strongly, and are working with the Syrian government to overcome", he said, as chair of the Fourth Syrian Humanitarian forum in Geneva. Of course, it is because those countries of the West - the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, etc., have been so unfairly critical of the Syrian regime.
Labels: Iran, Political Realities, Revolution, Syria, Traditions, Troublespots, United Nations
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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