After its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted an anti-American foreign policy that led, among other things, to the seizure of the US embassy in Iran and the subsequent US military operation known as the Tabas attack. The Islamic Republic then found itself in […]
Read more →Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian general who invented the Kalashnikov in 1974, has died. But his legacy lives on, certainly in Syria. For the popular automatic rifle, also known as AK-74, features on the flags of Hezbollah Lebanon and Sepah Pasdaran, both of which are fighting alongside the […]
Read more →A new investigation by Reuters reveals that millions of barrels of Iraqi crude oil have been delivered this year, under the radar, to the Syrian government through Lebanese and Egyptian trading companies, on board Iranian ships. The investigation, based on an examination of previously undisclosed shipping and […]
Read more →Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has, once again, renewed Iran’s strong opposition to the western support for the armed rebels and “terrorists” in Syria, and stressed that arms shipments to the “Muslim country” must stop. Source: http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920919001382 COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR: Meanwhile, there have been […]
Read more →This shameful, cheap song is one of the Mahdi Army songs used as a propaganda tool to recruit fighters to join the Iraqi Shia militia to go and fight in Syria alongside the regime. In the song, the all-made-up and heavily armed singer says: “Take us to […]
Read more →‘Veto’, a powerful short film (12 min) on how a peaceful uprising in Syria was pushed into an armed struggle because of the regime’s brutal repression and the political games played by the regime’s allies (Russia, China, Iran).
Read more →Not very long ago, brigadier Ramazan Sharif, Sepah Pasdaran’s PR man, denied any kind of Iranian military interference in Syria. A few weeks ago, however, following bloody battles between a group of Iranian armed men fighting in Syria and opponents of the Assad regime, the Syrian opposition […]
Read more →Foreign Sunni ‘jihadists’ are a clear and present danger to the Syrian revolution. Iranian-sponsored international Shia terrorist outfits are an even greater threat. They stand unambiguously on the side of tyranny, torture and rape. They are enemies of the Syrian people; they have helped to destroy Iraq. […]
Read more →Pro-regime Shia fighters taking position near Sayyida Zaynab in south Damascus. COMMENT FROM THE EDITOR: These people have disgraced the name of Imam Hussein by fighting alongside oppressors under his name. If he were alive, he would have probably been fighting them and defending the Syrian people […]
Read more →Good piece from the political web magazine Slate on what the Iranian nuclear deal with the west means for Syria. The article outlines different perspectives and scenarios: from al-Assad welcoming the “historic agreement” as reduced sanctions against Iran could take the pressure off Iran and allow it […]
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