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 →According to a commentary piece published by Fars News today,[1] quoting “international analysts”, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will remain in power for the time being. However, the piece is based entirely on one article in Arabic by someone called Lamis Farhat, published by a Lebanese website called […]
Read more →“Never cross the official red line.” This is the the unwritten principle regulating Iranian media inside Iran in anything related to the country’s foreign policy. And Iran’s role in Syria (and in Lebanon) is certainly one of the most sensitive of these red lines. For how else […]
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 →Under the title ‘Whose Sarin?’, the renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the London Review of Books in early December 2013 about the Ghouta chemical attack near Damascus in August 2013 (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin). Hersh claims that the Obama administration “cherry-pickedintelligence [on the use of chemical […]
Read more →Mehr News Agency [1] and Fars News Agency [2] yesterday reported that “terrorist armed groups” from the Islam Brigade and Jabhat Al-Nusra had “executed 80 civilians” in the town of ‘Adra, near Damascus. The reports are based on a report by the Russian state TV Russia Today […]
Read more →Hezbollah Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV ‘reported’ on Wednesday that “Syrian army units” had “carried out accurate operations against terrorists” in the Damascus district of Al-Qaboun and several other areas across the country, adding that the units “killed dozens, destroyed their weapons and foiled infiltration attempts.” WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, […]
Read more →– Why is the International Anti-War Conference providing a platform to Syrian regime mouthpieces? – Should the Syrian opposition talk to the Iranian government? WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE PROVIDING A PLATFOR TO SYRIAN REGIME MOUTHPIECES? An international, supposedly anti-war conference to be held in London […]
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