Syria Developments Result of US-Israeli Plot: Ayatollah Khamenei
“There should be no doubt that what has happened in Syria is the result of a joint American and Zionist plot,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday while addressing thousands of people in Tehran.
This is the first reaction of the Leader to the fall of the Syrian government which happened on Sunday, just few days after armed opposition groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began offensive in Aleppo.
“Yes, a neighboring country to Syria plays an overt role in this matter and has been playing it, and is still playing it now—this is evident to all. However, the main conspirator and the primary architect, the central command room, lies in the U.S. and the Zionist regime. We have evidence for this. These pieces of evidence leave no room for doubt,” Ayatollah Khamenei added.
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He stressed that the Resistance Front has not been weakened and will never be.
“This is what resistance is; this is what the resistance front is: the more pressure you apply, the stronger it becomes; the more crimes you commit, the more motivated it becomes. The more you fight them, the more widespread it becomes. And I tell you, by the grace of God, the scope of the resistance will, more than ever, cover the entire region,” he noted.
The Leader revealed that top officials of the armed forces and military organizations had written to him, pleading to go to Lebanon because they could not bear what was happening to the country and Hezbollah.
“Compare this with an army that cannot endure and flees,” Ayatollah Khamenei, apparently referring to the Syrian army which disintegrated in the face of advancing militants.
Ayatollah Khamenei also said Iran had made all preparations to assist Syria, but the US and the Israeli regime closed all air and land routes to the country.
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“We were ready even under these difficult circumstances. They came to me and said they had prepared all the facilities needed for the Syrians and were ready to go. But the skies were closed, the land was closed. The Zionist regime and the US closed both the skies of Syria and the land routes, it was not possible” to go, he said.
If the Syrians “had had a say against the enemy, it could not have closed their skies, nor could it have closed their land routes and we could have helped them”, the Leader added.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the agents of the world arrogance are happy about the events in Syria, thinking that with the fall of the Syrian government, which supported the resistance, the resistance front has become incapacitated.
“The resistance front is not a piece of hardware that breaks or collapses or is destroyed. Resistance is a faith; it is a thought; it is a heartfelt and definite decision. Resistance is a school; it is a school of belief. What is the faith of a group of people does not become weak but becomes stronger with pressure."
The Leader explained how the spread of evil motivates resistance fighters, leading to the expansion of the resistance front.
“When they see the heinous crimes of the enemy, those who doubted whether to resist or not, will get out of doubt; they will realize that they have to stand, resist and put their lives on the line against the oppressor. This is what resistance is.”
Ayatollah Khamenei cited Hezbollah and “the calamity” that befell on the Lebanese resistance with Israel’s assassination of the group’s secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
“Hezbollah lost someone like Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was this a small thing? But Hezbollah's attacks, power and strong fist became more intense than before. The enemy also understood this and accepted” ceasefire, he said.
Ayatollah Khamenei touched on divisions among the militant groups in Syria, saying each group has its own agenda and all seek to stake out their own turf.
Ultimately, the Leader said, they will be evicted from Syria by the “zealous Syrian youth, so will the Americans who seek to strengthen their foothold in the country.
“Each of these attackers has their own agenda and their goals are different. Some of them are seeking to seize land in the north of Syria or in the south. The US is looking to strengthen its foothold in the region.
“These are their goals, but time will show that, God willing, none of them will achieve these goals. The occupied areas of Syria will be liberated by the zealous Syrian youth. Do not doubt that this will happen,” he said.
“America’s foothold will not be strong either. By God's grace and power, the US will also be expelled from the region by the resistance front,” Ayatollah Khamenei added.
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