Syrian regime tells West: Accept that Assad is here to stay

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A poster which appeared during the elections in Syria to show that al-Assad himself is a mere puppet of the Iranian regime. According to military experts Soleimani is the real power behind the Syrian regime and is supervising its army and the Shiite militias including the Iranian backed Lebanese Hezbollah militant group.
A poster which appeared during the presidential elections in Syria to show that al-Assad himself is a mere puppet of the Iranian regime. According to military experts Soleimani is the real power behind the Syrian regime and is supervising its army and the Shiite militias including the Iranian backed Lebanese Hezbollah militant group.

Syria’s envoy to the United Nations says it’s time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the Middle East into sectarian enclaves.

Speaking to Reuters on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Syrian war, Assad’s long-serving U.N. ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said his president was ready to work with the United States and others to combat terrorism in the Middle East.

“We don’t want any vacuum in the country that would create chaos such as happened inLibya and Iraq and … Afghanistan,” he said. “President Assad can deliver because he is a strong president. He rules over a strong institution, which is the Syrian army. He has resisted pressure for four years.”

“He is the man who can deliver any solution,” he added.

Britain and France have rejected calls to restore ties with the Assad government. U.S. officials say there is no shift in their policy regarding Assad, even as their focus is fighting Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot which is also an enemy of Damascus.

“We have been open for cooperation (with the U.S.),” Jaโ€™afari said. “They don’t want it.”

Some European Union countries that withdrew their ambassadors from Syria are saying privately it is time for more communication with Damascus, diplomats said in February.

Diplomats say the calls have come from or would be supported by countries including Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria and Spain, as well as the Czech Republic, which did not withdraw its ambassador. Norway and Switzerland, which are outside the EU, are also supportive.

Such countries say that the threat from Islamic State has made Assad the lesser of two evils, seeing a need to re-engage with Damascus as a potential ally against the extremists, according to the diplomats.

U.S. officials at the United Nations did not have an immediate comment on Ja’afari’s latest statements.

They noted recent comments to the Security Council by Washington’s U.N. ambassador Samantha Power rejecting the argument that countries should partner with Damascus to more effectively fight extremists.

The United States and other Western powers have condemned Assad for widespread human rights violations since the uprising against his government began in 2011.

But Ja’afari insisted that keeping Assad, who was re-elected last year in a poll his foes regard as illegitimate, was the only path to peace and unity.

“NOT A SYRIAN CONFLICT”

Ja’afari said that “many European delegations” had visited Damascus to ask for strengthened anti-terrorism cooperation, without specifying which countries.

“We are telling everyone … if you want this cooperation to be fruitful you need to get back to Syria, to reopen your embassies.”

Indicating that Damascus wants Assad restored to international political legitimacy in exchange for security cooperation, Ja’afari said that “the benefit of such cooperation should be mutual … not only unilateral.”

He blasted U.S. President Barack Obama’s strategy of training and arming what he described as “so-called moderate” rebels, saying it had only served to deliver weapons into the hands of Islamic State.

The training of rebels has proven difficult. The Hazzm movement was once central to a covert CIA operation to arm Syrian rebels, but the group’s collapse last week underlined the failure of efforts to unify Arab and Western support for mainstream insurgents.

“This is not a Syrian conflict,” Ja’afari said.

“It is an international terror war waged against the Syrian government and the Syrian people,” he added, referring to the tens of thousands of foreign fighters who have joined Islamic State and other jihadist group in the country.

Reuters

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55 responses to “Syrian regime tells West: Accept that Assad is here to stay”

  1. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Let Assad stay and taste the agonizing defeat.

  2. arzatna1 Avatar
    arzatna1

    He feels he is safe as long as Iran and Hezbollah can take care of the rebels

    1. TheUSequalsTheIS Avatar
      TheUSequalsTheIS

      which rebels?

      1. arzatna1 Avatar
        arzatna1

        Where have you been during the past 4 years ?

        1. TheUSequalsTheIS Avatar
          TheUSequalsTheIS

          obviosly i have been on earth while have been in outer space… the international group of jihadists r hardly rebels.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            ‘Rebels Without A Cause’?? The ‘little people’ … like us, you and me, and all the chatty folks here … basically ignored by ‘The Tops’ … anywhere. Take a ‘poll’.

          2. ‘Rebels Without A Cause’

            kinda like ‘daft mare without a clue’

          3. ” the international group of jihadists r” iran, hezboes, iraqi, yemeni, afghani, syrian alawites, bahrainis, etc.
            but of course a hypocrite like yourself doesn’t see anything but what it wants, take those blinkers off.

          4. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Lol

          5. wow another intelligent comment by the anti education hezbo troll

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ..said the uneducated Wahhabi Salafi ISIS troll

          7. so barked the shite troll

          8. How old is that video?
            if it didn’t happen today then, according to man of warts, you are only posting it for propaganda purposes.

          9. TheUSequalsTheIS Avatar
            TheUSequalsTheIS

            i dont why its important but it was oploaded 4 days ago

          10. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Nice ‘mix’ … Sort of Rap-crappy … but yes funny, until the last line.

          11. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            OO so old..Mars 2. 2015.

          12. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            you mean the usual gang..err..”sects”..

          13. did u say sex?
            no i don’t want sex with you.

          14. just like hind, you continually edit your posts. lmfao we know why you two always edit.

        2. wargame1 Avatar
          wargame1

          He went to live with his fantom 12 Imam in the underground.

        3. Anti ISIS Avatar
          Anti ISIS

          The question is where have you been. There is no more rebels. There are only paid mercenaries left. But i guess you are like some on this blog, calling them rebels in Syria and terrorist everywhere else.

          1. TheUSequalsTheIS Avatar
            TheUSequalsTheIS

            blease watch the clib with bibi above hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh seriously i died laughing hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

          2. “There is no more rebels. There are only paid mercenaries left.”

            So you, FINALLY, admit there are/were rebels in Syria…. that is until your hero assaad decided to wipe out Syria.

          3. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            lol, you dumb whore, i have always said there were rebels in the beginning. Try again slag.

          4. call your mum a slag again?
            I can understand, after all the slag has copyrights on the term slag.

          5. ” There are only paid mercenaries left.”

            You mean like the paid afghanis, the hezzboes etc?

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “you are so repetitive that you bore the fuck out of even the dead.”

          7. zzzzzzz

          8. Hend Abyad Avatar
            Hend Abyad

            I never said that!!

          9. Liar

          1. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

        4. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          “Main US backed rebels (terrorists) joining Islamists”

          http://www.thedailybeast.com/a

          1. daft mare are you still activisting? shite whore

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            activisting is not English, I’m counter activisting..

          3. wow you are lame.. honestly

          4. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Well seeing though we are being honest, you are a whore. Nothing like honestly, hey Slag.

          5. seeing we are being honest, your mum is the slag and your daughters are whores just like their four legged mum. Just being honest.

          6. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Another copy cat line, you really are boring. Write some new material, then came back to me slag. Lol. You are to easy.

          7. how is it a “copy cat” (you continue to prove how uneducated you are, only children say copy cat) line?
            You didn’t say four legged. ๐Ÿ™‚
            now you have bored me so much that i need to have a nap and sleep off this wine. of course your mum never sleeps, it is on its back spread eagled for every hezbohoe to destroy that pussy….. cat. ๐Ÿ˜‰

          8. Hend Abyad Avatar
            Hend Abyad

            i never said that..

          9. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

        5. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          “US backed Syrian rebel (terrorist), group disbanding joining Islamists”..As if it’s news, they’re the creatures of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, they work with al Nusra – ISIS since 2011, Why the first massacred in Syria were Christians and Armenians?

          http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/01/main-u-s-backed-syrian-rebel-group-disbanding-joining-islamists.html

          1. you are so repetitive that you bore the fuck out of even the dead.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            .. Ha ha.. look yourself in the mirror, well sorry you’re fucked up.

          3. zzzzz

          4. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            No mirror can take that ugly head Hind. Even her mummy dear put a bag over her head.

          5. Your four legged wife’s mummy put a bag over that ugly slag’s head? I can understand why.
            Oh, now that four legged slag puts a bag over your head? I can understand why
            Now run along like a good genetically modified labradoodle and fetch. Good doggy

          6. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            Hahahahahaha. You are tooooooo funny. I love when you get pissed. SLAG. Now go and patch those grazes on your knee’s you whore. I think ManO has sore testicles from all the great sucking.

          7. lol yeh i am soooo pissed. hahaha
            btw learn to use apostrophes in the correct place, just like man of warts.. uneducated labradoodle.
            I am so pissed, too many wines. ๐Ÿ™‚

          8. Anti ISIS Avatar
            Anti ISIS

            More like to many c@&ks. Enjoy miss assorted creams. Now quick , use the same line against me. Copy cat slag.

          9. trust me, no one loves “c@&ks” (did you suddenly get shy?) more than your wife. That slut services every hezbohoe she can find, even the dead ones. She tells me she learned that from your grandmothers.

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    We’re not listening.

  4. Fauzia45 Avatar
    Fauzia45

    As Chomsky said there is an easy way to stop terrorism,^Stop participating in it ^!!

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