Iran helping Syria crush the will of the people
Image by PanARMENIAN_Photo via Flickr...So why is the Obama administration taking such a supine attitude toward this crushing of dissent in Syria? Why do they still call Assad a reformer? Why aren't we trying to help the people of Syria and Iran overthrow these despots and tyrants? Why does the Obama administration think this is "smart" diplomacy?
A senior western diplomat in Damascus expanded upon assertions, first made by White House officials last month, that Iran is advising President Bashar al-Assad's government on how to crush dissent.
The diplomat pointed to a "significant" increase in the number of Iranian personnel in the country since protests began in mid-March.
Mass arrests carried out by door-to-door raids, similar to those that helped to crush Iran's "green revolution" in 2009, have been ramped up in the past week.
Human rights groups suggest more than 7,000 people have been detained in total since the uprising began. More than 800 people are said to have died, up to 50 of them during last Friday's "day of defiance".
"Tehran has upped the level of technical support and personnel support from the Iranian Republican Guard to strengthen Syria's ability to deal with protesters," the senior western diplomat said, adding that the personnel were not involved in any physical operations on the ground and numbered in the few hundreds.
"Since the start of the uprising, the Iranian regime has been worried about losing its most important ally in the Arab world and important conduit for weapons to Hezbollah [in Lebanon]," the diplomat said.
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I have not seen them answer these questions and I doubt they have an answer they are willing to share with us.
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