In an interview with the Lebanese Future TV on 5 February 2014, the leader of the main Syrian opposition coalition, Ahmad Jarba, said Hezbollah Lebanon was no different from the criminal extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS). “Hezbollah, ISIS and the Syrian regime […]
Read more →If you can still bear following Iranian and Russian ‘news’ on Syria, you may have seen this Russia Today video report, which was widely re-broadcast by Iranian media close to the government, about Syrians returning to their destroyed homes in Aleppo. The report focuses on some 14,000 […]
Read more →Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was asked during a recent interview with the Swiss daily Neue Zuericher Zeitung about Iran’s support for Hezbollah Lebanon and the latter’s “assistance” to the Syrian government in its military campaign against the opposition militants. His answer was: “Tehran is fully […]
Read more →Iran is not physically present at the international Geneva II talks on Syria but is heavily present in the shadows. Source: Rozana (an independent Syrian radio project)
Read more →Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denied on Friday that Iran had any role in sending Hezbollah Lebanon militants to fight in Syria. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said: “We are not sending people. Hezbollah has made its own decision.” Mr Zarif […]
Read more →Iranian President Hassan Rohani said on Thursday that “the best solution [in Syria] is organising free and democratic elections.” Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he added: “Nobody can decide the future of Syria from outside… everybody will work together to defeat terrorism.” There […]
Read more →Are Sepah Pasdaran and Hezbollah Lebanon complicit in these crimes? New evidence has surfaced of “systematic torture and mass killing” of Syrian dissidents “on an industrial scale” by Syrian regime forces. A man who used to work as a photographer with the Syrian military police and was […]
Read more →Abbas Araqchi: “Everyone knows that, without Iran, the chances of reaching an actual solution in Syria are not very big.” The Iranian government received on Sunday an unexpected invitation from the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to attend the Geneva II talks on Syria, which are due to […]
Read more →The Syrian Center for Studies and Polling has conducted a large survey of Syrians’ opinions about “the prospects of a political solution” coming out of the forthcoming Geneva II conference. The survey involved two polls, one online (through social media), in which 12,040 people participated, and the […]
Read more →Could the Iranian government be the supplier of the chemical rockets that killed hundreds of civilians? New analysis of rockets linked to the sarin gas attack on the suburbs of Damascus on 21 August 2013 has concluded that the rockets were most likely fired by multiple launchers […]
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