Khamenei’s failed plans to save the Syrian dictator

The mullahs’ regime and terrorist Quds Force conspiracy to create crisis
 in Turkey and Jordan

According to received reports from within the mullahs’ regime, the religious fascism ruling Iran, in order to save Bashar Assad from doomed overthrow and preventing the breakup of its regional front, has resorted to a series of regional warmongering and political maneuverings. Acts that have generally failed and added Arab and Muslim public outrage against the regime:
1 - After the U.S. elections and the formation of the Syrian National Coalition, and the Free Syrian Army advances, the inner circles of the regime are very concerned about the situation of Bashar al-Assad and find it difficult and frustrating.
2 - The conference held on November 18 in Tehran to get Bashar Assad out of internal and international isolation, became a new scandal for the regime that even failed to attract internal opposition of Assad, who formally are not demanding his overthrow. In an internal report of one the regime’s organs to the Supreme National Security Council and Khamenei, about this conference, it is said: “Representatives of the parties who had come from Damascus to Tehran, while not demanding Bashar Assad removal from power, were hopeless about his future. Some of the parties inside Syria also did not participate in the conference. Asked why he has not come to Tehran, one of the Tansiq leaders, who is in active relationship with the Islamic Republic, said we do not agree to sit down with the representatives of the government (Bashar Assad) in Tehran meeting!” 
3 - It is said in this report: “The Tehran conference was not a success and has weakened even internal opposition to Assad. They say after their return to Damascus that Iran played with us, imposed Assad on us and left no credit for us. '
4 – Following the European Union and the US sanctions on Syrian television, the regime signed an agreement with representatives of the Syrian government to broadcast Syrian TV programs from the regime’s Kosar network in Tehran for the region.
5- The terrorist Quds Force tries to deflect the attention of the countries of the region from Syria by resorting to creating crisis in other countries of the region, thus making the situation harder for the Syrian opponents. Syria’s neighbours Turkey and Jordan are two of the targets of the regime. According to an internal report to the regime’s Supreme National Security Council, “We (the regime) are trying to destabilize Turkey, particularly in Kurdish areas and will not let the Turks to have ambitions in the Middle East and occupy a special place. We will make the Turkish government be busy with internal problems.' One of the regime’s plans is to 'create discord and conflict between Syrian and Turkish Kurds with Free Syrian Army,  and the Syrian opposition' in favour of Bashar al-Assad.
6 – The Quds Force is also planning to create crisis in Jordan, providing a breathing space for the regime of Bashar al-Assad. According to a confidential report to the Supreme Security Council, 'Opposition groups are organizing and expanding against the king of Jordan. The Islamic Republic of Iran has begun activities against the government of Jordan. These activities are both political and for activating opposition groups to Jordanian government. Further turbulences may be the next in Jordan. '
However, these attempts failed to stop Free Syrian Army to liberate all of Syria-Turkey border and a large portion of Syrian border with Jordan, from military and security forces of the Assad regime. 
7- The clerical regime also tries to deflect the attention of the international community and countries in the region from the massacre of the Syrian people with the war in Gaza, and on the other hand portray itself as a defender of the Palestinian people’s rights, reducing the outrage that has been brought upon it due to its support for Bashar Assad. 
8 – Based on a series of guidelines that the Quds Force has given to its affiliated entities and people:
- 'Before the war in Gaza, Iran and its supporters in the region were isolated. The regime’s figure had been tarnished due to Syria. Israel’s war in Gaza will change the situation. IRI and its supporters in the war and were brought forward and somewhat out of isolation. It’s become clear that not only Iran speaks up, but it is present in the battlefields, and today Gaza and Hezbollah are protected by Iranian missiles. The Islamic Republic of Iran must use as much propaganda as possible that Gaza is protected by Iranian missiles and Israel is destabilized by Iranian missiles.
- The war in Gaza makes the US and the West, in possible future negotiations with Iran, to come to the negotiating table in a different balance. The war of Gaza and Israel is a military victory for Hamas and a political victory for Iran.
- The war in Gaza benefited Syria (Bashar Assad) from another point of view. Because it became evident that Iran has given missiles to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who want to topple Bashar al-Assad did nothing and betrayed Gaza... The IRI propaganda in this regard on al-Jazeera and other media was very important and had a lot of coverage in the international community. '
9 – The clerical regime officials admitted for the first time in an unprecedented manner formally and openly to sending missiles and weapons into Gaza. The Quds Force has asked Hassan Nasrallah and other affiliated agents in Arab countries specially Egypt and Lebanon to declare in their speeches that Iranian missiles changed the war scene and Iran won this war. 
10 - According to these reports, the missile were shipped to Gaza in separated parts and embedded, and were assembled there. The Quds Force had taken some of its agents to Iran to train them how to use the missiles and has provided six months of military training up to the commanding level. In addition, it had sent a number of Hezbollah’s missile commanders to Gaza to train the how to assemble and operate the missiles.

 
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 28, 2012

Iran is the elephant in the Middle East room

By Abraham H. Foxman

FoxNews.com

The elephant in the Middle East room is Iran. Stopping the Islamic Republic of Iran from reaching a nuclear capability is the most important issue facing the international community. If we fail to do so, the implication on many issues, from energy to stability in the region to terrorism and to nuclear proliferation, will be profoundly negative and dangerous.

On the other hand, if the U.S. and others succeed in preventing Iran from going nuclear, as President Obama has committed to, then a series of positive developments could flow. Included are a strengthened American image in the region, a tilt away from the Islamic extremists, and possibilities for progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front.

We see this in microcosm when we look at what has been in happening in Gaza.

It is impossible to understand what’s going on in Gaza and with Hamas without recognizing Iran’s role. It is hard to comprehend Israel’s reaction to Hamas without seeing the role of the looming threat to Iran. It is impossible to find a solution in Gaza without taking Iran into account. And it is critical that very soon the world must move its attention from Gaza to Iran itself as the clock toward an Iranian nuclear weapon keeps on ticking.

When Hamas began to take control in Gaza, many took comfort that at least it was a Sunni regime that unlike Hezbollah in Lebanon, would not draw too close to the Shiite Iranians.

It was false comfort. Iran has become the major supplier of weapons, increasingly sophisticated, flowing to Hamas. Iran provides full diplomatic support to Hamas. And Iran works to strengthen the Islamist Hamas against the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas.

The first necessity for the international community is to openly identify and expose Iran’s role in building up Hamas. The Palestinian terrorist group has now been able to launch missiles that can reach Tel Aviv and cause great damage simply because of Iran. Iran ships its Fajr-5 and many Grad missiles through Sudan and, in the words of the head of the Republican Guard, Major General Mohammad Ali Ja’afari, “we have given them (Hamas and others in Gaza) the necessary technology for the Fajr-5 and today mass quantities of this missile are being produced.”

And make no mistake about it: Iran is determined to up the ante, to increase both the weaponry and training for Hamas that will allow it to become the same level of threat to Israel from the south as Hezbollah is from the north.

Any solution to the threat of Hamas to Israel must provide a way to interdict that flow of arms from Iran. The cease-fire agreement reached through the good offices of the U.S. and Egypt and follow-up negotiations will focus primarily on what role Egypt will play to stop that arms flow. Based on past experience, even with a Mubarak regime that was far friendlier to Israel than the current Morsi government, stopping weaponry will at best be a sporadic business.

And so, inevitably, when it comes to truly reversing the dynamic in Gaza (Israel may have regained some deterrence and some reasonably quiet time, but it didn’t change the fundamentals) it is what takes place with regard to the Iranian bomb that could play the pivotal role.

First, as if we need it, the latest conflict in Gaza reminds us of what a priority it is to stop Iran from going nuclear. A resurgent Iran, after obtaining nuclear weapons, would undoubtedly multiply its destructive options manifold. Keep in mind the comments of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius about the Gaza conflict: “What’s new is that now there are long-range arms…and there are Iranian arms. Iranian responsibility is heavy in all of this.”

Second, preventing Iran from going nuclear, whether through diplomacy, sanctions or the military option, will embolden more moderate forces in the region to stand up to the extremists. Indeed, the balance of power within the Palestinian camp could shift toward the Palestinian Authority and away from Hamas.

All in all, it would make it less likely that Iran could see itself as the expansionist power arming its terror-prone allies and causing destruction everywhere.

So let’s keep things in perspective. Let’s encourage any agreement that in the short-term will stop the launching of rockets from Gaza into Israel.

If we truly want to change the dynamic in the long run, however, dealing with the main address -- Tehran -- is the way to go. That’s what “keeping your eyes on the prize” means in today’s Middle East.

Abraham H. Foxman is National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Clerical regime’s confession on the catastrophic consequences of the downfall of the Syrian regime

NCRI's Statement

Unmanned drones given to Hezbollah via Syria...geographical separation between Iran and Hezbollah will lead to weakening of Hezbollah and extension of the Israeli borders to Iran.

The clerical regime of Iran once again displayed its fear of the overthrow of the Syrian dictator and admitted to its murderous warmongering role in the region by emphasizing Syria’s strategic position in the region in the export of terrorism and fundamentalism.
“Resalat daily” connected to Khamenei’s faction in its editorial section  “Strategic alliance between Hezbollah Iran and Syria” wrote, “The Americans decided to break the chain of resistance disconnecting Syria from the rest of the chain. The Islamic republic, being the biggest and most powerful link, and Lebanese Hezbollah being the other link”. 
The editorial stated with the fall of Assad’s regime sanctions will increase and the regime will be on the verge of overthrow. If today Hezbollah’s drones over Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ashdod and ...are taking images and engage in data collection, the equipment and parts of these Iranian drones have primarily  been transferred through Syria into Lebanon. The geographical separation between the chains of the resistance will eventually weaken Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon and will bring the security and intelligence gathering of the Zionist regime to the edge of the borders of the Islamic republic “.
The editorial then repeats the regime hopes that the “new Middle East engineered by Islamic republic of Iran is emerging and soon with the convergence of Hezbollah in Syria, Lebanon, Iran and some Arab countries in the Middle East, the new power equation takes a new form.
The main part of the chain will be the Islamic Republic and other links will be Hezbollah and Hamas in Palestine. During the past few months hundreds of thousands of Syrians have formed the main core of Hezbollah in Syria. A significant number of these people have joined as a response to the crimes committed by Wahhabi and Salafists against the Alawite religious minority”.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 23, 2012