The Sunday Times eksklusivt intervju med Syrias President.

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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/ har et eksklusivt intervju med Syrias President Bashar al-Assad. Det er publisert på forsiden av avisen, men du må ha adgang for å kunne lese intervjuet.

 

Intervjuet ble nevnt på svensk Tv og er også gjengitt av andre media kanaler og aviser. Google

 

syrian president The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom

 

og du finner treff som denne:

 

(CNN) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that any potential military intervention against his country would lead to "very dire" repercussions and said he is willing to die for his country.

 

In an interview with The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom, al-Assad said that Syria "will not bow down" despite international threats of economic sanctions over the government's crackdown on protesters.

 

He said recent attacks on the Syrian army showed he was facing armed fighters, not peaceful demonstrators.

 

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But in his interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Assad accused the Arab League of creating a pretext for Western intervention in his country, which he said would trigger an "earthquake" across the Middle East.

 

Syria har en allianse med Iran.

 

Iran and Syria have maintained close ties since the early years of the Islamic Republic and Syria now serves as Iran’s key Arab ally and partner in the region. The advent of the Iran-Iraq War provided Syria with an opportunity to gain another regional ally against Saddam Hussein.[1] In contrast with nearly all other Arab countries, Syria supported Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. In 1982 the two states brokered a deal allowing Syria to receive shipments of subsidized Iranian oil, and in return, Syria shut down Iraq’s oil pipeline through its territory.[2] Syrian support for Iran wavered in 1986 when President Hafez Assad suggested that Syria would not accept Iran as an occupying force in Iraq. Soon after, Minister of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Mohsen Rafiq-Dust and President Assad met in Damascus to restore relations. Syrian officials, however, would not affirm Iran’s goal of “liberation of Iraq.”[3]

Kilde: http://www.irantracker.org/foreign-relations/syria-iran-foreign-relations

 

Se også:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15809269

 

Er det mulig å stoppe dette før midtøsten står i flammer, eller vil tinnsoldatene fortsette å falle?

 

Assad har en retorikk som minner om Gadhaffis.