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thousand Syrians and 30,000 political prisoners in Iran were
massacred in 1988 says: Do not trust the mullahs' regime in Iran.
The
unspeakable scenes we witnessed in Aleppo -- the massacre of women, children,
doctors and other innocents -- broadcast to us almost live by the civilians
trapped in the siege will go down in history along with Darfur, Srebrenica or
Rwanda as major stains on the moral conscience of the world.
We cannot
say we didn't know, we cannot say we didn't see it. The constant flow of images
of the carnage have filled social media, creating a worldwide indignation that
contrasts with the shameful inaction of the international community. The U.N.
Security Council is paralyzed by the Russian and Chinese veto and the European
Union and the United States have been conspicuously silent about the main
enabler on the ground: the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Shiite militias it
sponsors.
When in
the previous years of the anti-Assad revolution the situation started shifting
in favor of the pro-democracy opposition, Tehran took over the defense of the
dictator and dispatched its Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and militias,
such as Hezbollah and other groups of Pakistani and Afghani mercenaries. The
Iranian regime's efforts to defend Syrian President Bashar al-Assad got reinforced when Qassem Soleimani, the head of the IRGC's
Quds force, went to Moscow -- in violation of the United Nations resolutions
that banned him from international travel for his involvement in terrorist
activities -- and persuaded the Kremlin to join the conflict with more than
logistical and financial support, and so the Russian bombing campaign started.
We saw in
horror the gruesome balance of the Iranian and Russian interventions in Syria,
and Western leaders have shown in their declarations that they know who's to
blame. French President François Hollande said, "It's Russia and Iran who
did not wish such a political process. They wanted to crush, to destroy the
opposition and also maintain this confusion between terrorist groups and
opposition groups or rebels."
British
Prime Minister Theresa May declared: "Assad and his backers, Russia and
Iran, bear responsibility for the tragedy in Aleppo." Her Foreign Minister Boris Johnson stated that "both Russia and Iran have failed to uphold
their obligations under international humanitarian law."
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