Iran's Supreme Leader Warns Against Foreign Countries Deciding Syria's Future
Source: UPI
Iran, a key ally to embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, says it is up to the Syrian people to decide whether Assad will remain in power.
By Fred Lambert Contact the Author | Nov. 1, 2015 at 4:13 PM
TEHRAN, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, on Sunday warned foreign countries against deciding the political future of Syria.
"We believe it doesn't make sense that other countries get together and decide about a governing system and the head of that state," The Wall Street Journal quoted Khamenei as saying to Iranian diplomats and government officials. "This is a dangerous initiative which no country in the world would accept to be done for itself."
Iran, along with Russia, has been a key ally to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Assad is facing an insurgency from a variety of mainly Sunni Arab militant groups in a bloody four-year civil war that is estimated to have killed more than 250,000 people.
The United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni powers in the Persian Gulf have supported the anti-Assad opposition, though all of the major actors in the conflict are aligned against the Islamic State, a Sunni terrorist group holding territories in both Syria and Iraq.
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)If so, it will get very ugly, very fast.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Especially countries so far-removed geographically from Syria, as the US.
Why can't we mind our own damned business, rebuild our infrastructure,
invest in our youth, and in expanding sustainable energy sources?
last I heard, Syria has not declared war on the US.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,370 posts)WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)USA is not the Cop of the World, so needs to stop reflexively acting like one.
It has never worked out well to do it, never. The quagmire effect drags on
and on, piling up the dead, ours included.
What gives the US the right to think it needs to intervene when foreign rulers
we don't approve of, mistreat their citizenry ... wasn't that the rationale for
attacking iraq?
forest444
(5,902 posts)We often get so caught up in the rhetoric, it's easy to miss the big picture.
The monsters and profiteers that like to use the U.S. as the World's Cop couldn't care less about human rights in Iran, Cocainia, or Faroffistan; they just want da war (and da loot).
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)on a few issues like war, legalization of drugs, and who are then used by
Establishment Democrats to scare and intimidate other Democrats into
voting for Establishment Democrats.
This is well-known by most progressives .. the ones with more than 1-2 brain
cells still firing .. but nice try though.
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)brilliance.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I mean, that's all very well, but he's a great big hypocrite.
daleo
(21,317 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)* the lucky 12 million who made it out alive.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)sit in Syria.