Iraq stands by Assad, rejects interjection in Syria

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime will not fall and attempts to overthrow it by force will aggravate the crisis in the region, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday.

“It has been one year and the regime did not fall, and it will not fall, and why should it fall?” Maliki told a news conference in Baghdad.

“We reject any arming [of Syrian rebels] and the process to overthrow the regime, because this will leave a greater crisis in the region,” Maliki said.

His comments were Iraq’s strongest statement yet on the year-long Syria crisis, and is another attack on the position of hardline states including Qatar and Saudi Arabia that advocate arming Syrian rebels and have called for Assad’s departure.

The two Gulf states sent low-level delegations to a landmark Arab summit in Baghdad on Thursday, in what the Qatari premier said was a “message” to Iraq.

Without naming them, Maliki said “the stance of these two states is very strange. They are calling for sending arms instead of working on putting out the fire, and they will hear our voice, that we are against arming and against foreign interference.”

“We are against the interference of some countries in Syria’s internal affairs, and those countries that are interfering in Syria’s internal affairs will interfere in the internal affairs of any country,” the Iraqi leader added.

He was speaking as delegates from dozens of European, Arab and other countries met in Istanbul to consider ways of supporting Syrian opposition representatives and to apply further pressure on Assad’s regime.

Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said earlier that senior Iraqi officials were present at the “Friends of Syria” meeting, after comments by Maliki’s spokesperson that Iraq might not attend in order to preserve its role as mediator.

“Iraq is taking part in the second meeting of the Friends of Syria in Istanbul, and the deputy foreign minister and our permanent representative at the Arab League are attending the conference,” Zebari told AFP.

The United Nations says Assad’s crackdown on the uprising against his rule has cost more than 9,000 lives since it erupted in March last year.

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4 responses to “Iraq stands by Assad, rejects interjection in Syria”

  1. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Both Iraqi and Syrian regime is destined to fall. The US/irani puppet Nuri al Maliki and the Persian Lackey Bashar Assads time has come to be overthrown inshallah. They can prolonged the time with the help of UN and USA but Taliban is emerging victorious in Afghanistan , so once they kick this 67+ countries of invading pigs the next target is going to be the puppets Karzai and Nuri al Maliki. 

    Iran naturally  will be very busy in Iraq and in Afghanistan by then. The Libyan resistance is not yet organized but it wont take years for them the start kicking the Parisian and NATO invaders in Libya. The free Syrian army is now a stable force and getting better by the day. The UN can buy time for Assad by sending peace mission but that wont change Assads fate. The crack of these invading pigs will be start from Afghanistan When all hell breaks loose, there is chaos, confusion and trouble among these pigs and IED will come to make them quiet. 

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Hope you’re willing to take all the refugees.

  2. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Both Iraqi and Syrian regime is destined to fall. The US/irani puppet Nuri al Maliki and the Persian Lackey Bashar Assads time has come to be overthrown inshallah. They can prolonged the time with the help of UN and USA but Taliban is emerging victorious in Afghanistan , so once they kick this 67+ countries of invading pigs the next target is going to be the puppets Karzai and Nuri al Maliki. 

    Iran naturally  will be very busy in Iraq and in Afghanistan by then. The Libyan resistance is not yet organized but it wont take years for them the start kicking the Parisian and NATO invaders in Libya. The free Syrian army is now a stable force and getting better by the day. The UN can buy time for Assad by sending peace mission but that wont change Assads fate. The crack of these invading pigs will be start from Afghanistan When all hell breaks loose, there is chaos, confusion and trouble among these pigs and IED will come to make them quiet. 

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Hope you’re willing to take all the refugees.

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