TINJAUAN/kajian 1WC'sChannel 2012: (Diterbitkan RT: 09 Ogos, 2012) Presiden republik Islam Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) dan Menteri Luar Ali Akbar Salehi (C) mendengar seorang pakar semasa lawatan ke pusat reaktor penyelidikan Tehran (1WC'sChannel REVIEW 2012: (RT Published: 09 August, 2012) The Islamic republic's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) and Foreign Minister Ali AKbar Salehi (C) listening to an expert during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre (AFP Photo/Iranian Presidency)
Laporan Amerika Syarikat yang baru mengenai pembinaan senjata nuklear Iran 'menjadikan 'Issue Urgent' . . .
Masa semakin suntuk untuk mengandungi ancaman Iran, menteri pertahanan Israel telah memberi amaran. Israel meningkatkan penggera berikutan Amerika Syarikat Anggaran baru Perisikan Negara yang mengatakan Tehran telah mengambil langkah penting ke arah menyertai kelab nuklear.
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama sepatutnya telah menerima Anggaran Perisikan Kebangsaan (NIE) minggu lalu, tetapi ia telah terlewat untuk memasukkan "risikan maklumat baru dan membimbangkan" mengenai sifat tentera program nuklear Iran, laporan Haaretz. Kesimpulan yang dibuat oleh laporan berkata untuk bersatu dengan masyarakat perisikan Israel. NIE dilaporkan menyimpulkan bahawa usaha Iran untuk membangunkan keupayaan nuklear telah membuat kemajuan jauh lebih besar dari dugaan.
Menteri pertahanan Israel, Ehud Barak, berkata beliau menyedari laporan perisikan yang tidak ditentukan yang diedarkan di Washington yang kesimpulan yang berhimpun dengan penilaian sendiri niat Israel nuklear Iran. Ada mungkin yang benar-benar adalah satu laporan perisikan Amerika - Saya tidak tahu jika ia adalah satu NIE membuat jalan di sekitar pejabat kanan (di Washington), "Reuters CITES Barak sebagai memberitahu Radio Israel.
"Setakat yang kita tahu ia membawa penilaian Amerika yang lebih dekat pada kita . . . ia menjadikan isu Iran lebih segera dan menunjukkan ia adalah kurang jelas dan pasti bahawa kita akan tahu segala-galanya dalam masa kira-kira kemajuan yang mantap ke arah keupayaan tentera nuklear, "katanya terus. Apabila ditanya mengenai komen yang dibuat minggu lepas oleh bekas ketua Mossad, Efraim Halevy, yang berkata "jika saya adalah seorang rakyat Iran, saya akan sangat bimbang dalam 12 minggu akan datang," Barak tidak gentar.
"Terdapat beberapa asas kepada apa yang Halevy berkata." Kita akan perlu membuat beberapa keputusan sukar", beliau memberi amaran. "Semua pilihan masih di atas meja, dan apabila kita katakan ini, kita maksudkan," katanya lagi. Jurucakap White House,, Tommy Vietor berkata beliau "tidak akan mengulas mengenai perkara-perkara perisikan" selepas disoal siasat mengenai penemuan NIE.
Israel telah berpegang teguh dalam pernyataan bahawa ia akan melancarkan strike pre-emptive ketenteraan terhadap program nuklear Iran. Manakala Amerika Syarikat mengekalkan ia akan melakukan segala-galanya dalam kuasanya untuk menghentikan Republik Islam daripada membangunkan senjata nuklear, Washington telah menggesa Israel untuk memberikan rejim sekatan terhadap masa Iran mula berkuat kuasa. Walau bagaimanapun, tanda-tanda bahawa Israel kehilangan kesabaran (Israel is losing patience) menjadi ketara semasa mesyuarat antara Perdana Menteri Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu dan setiausaha pertahanan Amerika Syarikat, Leon Panetta, minggu lalu.
"Sekarang rejim Iran percaya bahawa masyarakat antarabangsa tidak mempunyai kehendak untuk menghentikan program nuklearnya," katanya "Ini mesti berubah, dan ia mesti berubah dengan cepat kerana masa untuk menyelesaikan isu ini secara aman adalah ‘running out." "Tiada sekatan mahupun diplomasi telah lagi mempunyai apa-apa kesan ke atas program senjata nuklear Iran, "terus Netanyahu.
Manakala Panetta mengekalkan bahawa Amerika Syarikat akan menyimpan semua pilihan di atas meja, sama ada laporan NIE yang terbaru menunjukkan Amerika Syarikat cenderung kepada penyelesaian tentera masih belum dapat dilihat.
NIE produk "estimative" yang disusun oleh 16 agensi perisikan Amerika Syarikat yang bertujuan untuk memaklumkan kepada presiden Amerika Syarikat (US) dan lain-lain pegawai tinggi kerajaan atas urusan peristiwa yang mungkin masa hadapan. Satu laporan 2007 NIE pada usaha Iran sebenarnya tergelincir Israel untuk menyatukan masyarakat antarabangsa terhadap Tehran selepas mendapati negara telah menggantung program senjata nuklear pada tahun 2003 dan telah membuat ada usaha untuk membawa kembali dalam talian.
Walau bagaimanapun, NIE penemuan terbaru dapat mencerminkan sumber tentera Amerika Syarikat yang mendakwa ( US military source who claimed) Amerika Syarikat dan Israel telah disediakan pelan perang terhadap Iran.
New US report on Iran nukes 'makes issue urgent' . . .
Time is running out to contain the Iranian threat, Israel’s defense minister has warned. Israel is raising the alarm following a new US National Intelligence Estimate which says Tehran has made significant strides towards joining the nuclear club.
US President Barrack Obama was supposed to have received the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) weeks ago, but it was delayed in order to include “new and alarming intelligence information” concerning the military nature of Iran’s nuclear program, Haaretz reports. The report’s conclusions are said to converge with those of the Israeli intelligence community. The NIE reportedly concluded that Iranian efforts to develop a nuclear capability had made considerably greater progress than initially thought.
Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, said he was aware of an unspecified intelligence report circulating in Washington whose conclusions converged with Israel’s own assessment of Iran’s nuclear intentions. There probably really is such an American intelligence report – I don't know if it is an NIE one – making its way around senior offices (in Washington)," Reuters cites Barak as telling Israel Radio.
"As far as we know it brings the American assessment much closer to ours … it makes the Iranian issue even more urgent and (shows it is) less clear and certain that we will know everything in time about their steady progress toward military nuclear capability," he continued. When asked about a comment made last week by former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy, who said “if I were an Iranian, I would be very worried in the next twelve weeks,” Barak did not flinch.
"There is some basis to what Halevy said." We will soon have to make some difficult decisions”, he warned. "All the options are still on the table, and when we say this, we mean it," he continued. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said he was “not going to comment on intelligence matters" after being questioned about the NIE findings.
Israel has been steadfast in its assertion that it will launch a pre-emptive military strike against Iran’s nuclear program. While the United States maintains it will do everything within its power to stop the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon, Washington has urged Israel to give the sanctions regime against Iran more time to take effect. However, signs that Israel is losing patience became apparent during a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US defense secretary, Leon Panetta, last week.
“Right now the Iranian regime believes that the international community does not have the will to stop its nuclear program,” he said “This must change, and it must change quickly because time to resolve this issue peacefully is running out.” “Neither sanctions nor diplomacy has yet had any impact on Iran's nuclear weapons program,” Netanyahu continued.
While Panetta maintained that the US would keep all options on the table, whether the latest NIE report indicates the US is leaning towards a military solution remains to be seen.
The NIE is an “estimative” product compiled by 16 US intelligence agencies intended to inform the US president and other top government officials on the likely course of future events. A 2007 NIE report on Iran actually derailed Israeli efforts to rally the international community against Tehran after it found the country had suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and had made no efforts to bring it back online.
However, the latest NIE findings could mirror a US military source who claimed the US and Israel had already drawn up war plans against Iran.
Signs Of the End Of the WORLD . . . Israel, Syria dan Iran
SOS Untuk membantu Pelarian Palestin di Syria mereka dalam bahaya. Segera semua rakyat Palestin di Palestin dan di luar Palestin. Pelarian Palestin di Syria dalam bahaya. Peperangan kini berada di kem pelarian Yarmouk. Keadaan sangat sangat sangat serius di kem Yarmouk pelarian Palestin di Syria. Saya meminta semua orang untuk membantu mereka untuk membantu orang awam di sana. Video ini di kem Yarmouk bagi pelarian Palestin di Syria. Pemberontak Syria melaksanakan 3 lelaki di Aleppo tanpa perbicaraan . . . Mereka benar-benar binatang bukan manusia . . . Pelaksanaan adalah di sebuah sekolah.
سورية or سوريا : ܣܘܪܝܐ,
Rasmi Republik Arab Syria
الجمهورية العربية السورية
Atau adalah sebuah negara Arab di Asia Barat, yang bersempadan dengan Lubnan dan Laut Mediterranean Barat, Turki di utara, Iraq di timur, Jordan di selatan, dan Israel ke barat daya. Dalam Bahasa Inggeris, nama Syria adalah bekas sinonim dengan Levant, dikenali dalam bahasa Arab sebagai Sham, manakala negara moden merangkumi tapak kerajaan beberapa empayar dan purba, termasuk tamadun Eblan milenium ke-3 BC.
Dalam era Islam, ibu kota Damsyik, kota tertua yang berterusan didiami di DUNIA, adalah kerusi Khalifah Umayyah, dan ibu kota wilayah Kesultanan Mamluk Mesir. Penduduk Syria Sunni 74% peratus (kebanyakannya Sunni Arab, tetapi juga Kurd, Circassians dan Turkomans), 12% peratus Alawi dan Syiah (kebanyakannya orang-orang Arab), 10% peratus Kristian (Arab Kristian, Asyur dan Armenia) dan Druze 3% peratus (kadang-kadang dianggap sebahagian daripada Syiah Islam). Digabungkan, 87% peratus daripada penduduk Syria beragama Islam. Majoriti penduduk Syria Arab.
Negeri Syria moden telah ditubuhkan selepas Perang DUNIA Pertama sebagai mandat Perancis, dan mewakili negeri Arab terbesar untuk muncul dari Levant Arab yang dahulunya diperintah Uthmaniyyah. Ia mencapai kemerdekaan pada bulan April 1946, sebagai sebuah republik parlimen. Tempoh selepas kemerdekaan adalah huru-hara, dan sejumlah besar rampasan kuasa tentera dan percubaan rampasan kuasa berjabat negara dalam tempoh 1949-1971.
Antara 1958 dan 1961, Syria telah memasuki kesatuan ringkas dengan Mesir, yang telah ditamatkan oleh rampasan kuasa tentera di Syria. Syria adalah di bawah Undang-undang Darurat 1963-2011, berkesan menggantung perlindungan yang paling perlembagaan bagi warganegara, dan sistem kerajaan dianggap sebagai tidak demokratik. Presiden Bashar al-Assad sejak tahun 2000 dan telah didahului oleh bapa beliau Hafez al-Assad, yang berada di pejabat dari tahun 1971.
Sejak Mac 2011, satu pemberontakan menentang kerajaan Assad, yang dianggap lanjutan dari peristiwa-peristiwa spring Arab, telah dibuang sebahagian besar negara ini ke dalam konflik bersenjata. Julai 15, 2012, Syria berkesan dalam keadaan perang saudara. Perang DUNIA III (Perang WWIII atau Third WORLD War) adalah konflik yang menandakan pengganti kepada Perang DUNIA II (1939-1945).
Konflik itu akan berada pada skala global, dengan spekulasi umum bahawa ia mungkin akan menjadi perang nuklear dan buruk dalam alam ini. Ekoran Perang DUNIA I, Perang DUNIA II, permulaan Perang Dingin dan pembangunan, ujian dan penggunaan senjata nuklear, spekulasi awal meluas untuk perang global akan datang.
Pada 16 Jun 2006, menteri-menteri pertahanan Iran dan Syria telah menandatangani perjanjian kerjasama ketenteraan terhadap apa yang mereka namakan "common threats" yang disampaikan oleh Israel dan Amerika Syarikat. Butir-butir perjanjian itu tidak dinyatakan. Walau bagaimanapun Menteri Pertahanan Syria Najjar berkata, "Iran menganggap keselamatan Syria keselamatan kita sendiri, dan kami mengambil kira keupayaan pertahanan kita untuk menjadi orang-orang Syria."
Lawatan ini juga menyebabkan jualan perkakasan tentera Iran ke Syria. Di samping itu untuk menerima kelengkapan ketenteraan, Iran telah secara konsisten melabur berbilion-bilion dolar ke dalam ekonomi Syria. Kepimpinan Syria, termasuk Presiden Assad dirinya, milik terutamanya untuk cabang yang Alawite Syiah Islam. Pada masa ini, Iran terlibat dalam melaksanakan beberapa projek perindustrian di Syria, termasuk kilang-kilang simen, talian pemasangan kereta, loji kuasa, dan pembinaan silo.
Iran juga merancang untuk menubuhkan bank bersama Iran Syria pada masa akan datang. Pada 17 Februari 2007, Presiden Ahmadinejad dan Assad bertemu di Tehran. Ahmadinejad kemudiannya mengisytiharkan bahawa mereka akan membentuk satu pakatan untuk pertempuran Amerika Syarikat dan konspirasi Israel terhadap DUNIA Islam.
Semasa pemberontakan 2011 Syria, Iran telah membantu kerajaan Syria. The Guardian telah mendakwa bahawa mei Pengawal Republikan Iran meningkat "tahap sokongan teknikal dan sokongan kakitangan" untuk mengukuhkan Syria "keupayaan untuk berurusan dengan penunjuk perasaan," menurut seorang diplomat di Damsyik.
Signs Of the End Of the WORLD . . . Israel,
Syria and Iran:
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Signs Of the End Of the WORLD . . . Israel, Syria and Iran
SoS To help Refugees the Palestinians in Syria they in danger. Urgent of all Palestinians in Palestine and outside Palestine. Refugees the Palestinians in Syria in danger. War now in the Yarmouk refugee camp. The situation is very very very serious in camp the Palestinian refugee Yarmouk in Syria. I ask everyone to help them to help civilians there. This video in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Syria. Syrian rebels executed 3 men in Aleppo without trial . . . They are really beasts not human beings.. Execution was in a school.
سورية or سوريا : ܣܘܪܝܐ,
Officially the Syrian Arab Republic
الجمهورية العربية السورية
Or is an Arab country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. In English, the name Syria was formerly synonymous with the Levant, known in Arabic as Sham, while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the third millennium BC.
In the Islamic era, its capital city, Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate, and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. The population of Syria is 74% Sunni (mostly Sunni Arabs, but also Kurds, Circassians and Turkomans), 12% Alawi and Shia (mostly Arabs), 10% Christian (Arab Christians, Assyrians and Armenians) and 3% Druze (sometimes considered part of Shia Islam). Combined, 87% of the Syrian population is Muslim. The majority of the Syrian population is Arab.
The modern Syrian state was established after the First WORLD War as a French mandate, and represented the largest Arab state to emerge from the formerly Ottoman-ruled Arab Levant. It gained independence in April 1946, as a parliamentary republic. The post-independence period was tumultuous, and a large number of military coups and coup attempts shook the country in the period 1949--1971.
Between 1958 and 1961, Syria entered a brief union with Egypt, which was terminated by a military coup in Syria. Syria was under Emergency Law from 1963 to 2011, effectively suspending most constitutional protections for citizens, and its system of government is considered to be non-democratic. Bashar al-Assad has been president since 2000 and was preceded by his father Hafez al-Assad, who was in office from 1971.
Since March 2011, an uprising against the government of Assad, considered an extension of the events of the Arab spring, has thrown a significant part of the country into armed conflict. As of July 15, 2012, Syria is effectively in a state of civil war. WORLD War III (WWIII or Third WORLD War) is the conflict that denotes a successor to WORLD War II (1939--1945).
The conflict would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would likely be a nuclear war and devastating in nature. In the wake of WORLD War I, WORLD War II, the commencement of the Cold War and the development, testing and use of nuclear weapons, there was early widespread speculation as to the next global war.
On 16 June 2006 the defence ministers of Iran and Syria signed an agreement for military cooperation against what they called the "common threats" presented by Israel and the United States. Details of the agreement were not specified. However Syrian defense minister Najjar said "Iran considers Syria's security its own security, and we consider our defense capabilities to be those of Syria."
The visit also resulted in the sale of Iranian military hardware to Syria. In addition to receiving military hardware, Iran has consistently invested billions of dollars into the Syrian economy. The Syrian leadership, including President Assad himself, belongs predominantly to the Alawite branch of Shi'a Islam. Currently, Iran is involved in implementing several industrial projects in Syria, including cement factories, car assembly lines, power plants, and silo construction.
Iran also plans to set up a joint Iranian--Syrian bank in the future. On 17 February 2007, Presidents Ahmadinejad and Assad met in Tehran. Ahmadinejad afterwards declared that they would form an alliance to combat US and Israeli conspiracies against the Islamic world.
During the 2011 Syrian uprising, Iran has aided the Syrian government. The Guardian has claimed that in May the Iranian Republican Guard increased its "level of technical support and personnel support" to strengthen Syria's "ability to deal with protesters," according to one diplomat in Damascus.
TINJAUAN/kajian 1Wc'sChannel 2012: Iran 200
kilometer (120 batu) pelbagai Qader (Ghader) tanah-untuk-laut peluru berpandu
dilancarkan pada hari terakhir war games tentera laut berhampiran Selat Hormuz
di selatan Iran (1Wc’sChannel REVIEW 2012: Iranian 200-kilometre (120-mile)
range Qader (Ghader) ground-to-sea missile is launched on the last day of navy
war games near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran.(AFP Photo
Jamejamonline/Ebrahim Noroozi)) (AFP Photo Jamejamonline/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Iran
mengancam untuk 'menyerang' pada sebarang
campur tangan di Syria . . .
Rejim Presiden Bashar al-Assad, mempunyai
rakan-rakan di rantau ini bersedia "untuk membatalkan" sekiranya
campur tangan ke Syria, kata seorang komander Pengawal Revolusi Iran. Amaran itu
dihantar ke negara-negara "membenci" Arab.
"Tiada kawan-kawan Syria atau depan
rintangan besar lagi telah memasuki tempat kejadian, dan sekiranya ini berlaku,
tegas bertiup akan melanda pada musuh, terutamanya raja-raja Arab yang benci,"
Jeneral Masoud Jazayeri, seorang jurucakap Bersama Ketua-ketua negara Staf,
memberitahu agensi berita Fars.
Tiada negara khususnya telah disebut. Iran
kekal sebagai sekutu utama rasmi Damsyik, manakala pemimpin-pemimpin
negara-negara Teluk seperti Arab Saudi, Jordan atau Qatar secara terbuka
menyokong pemberontak Syria. Retorik agresif yang mendengar dari Iran datang di
atas pertukaran ke atas kimia dan Syria senjata biologi, yang negara Arab
berikrar hari Isnin untuk tidak menggunakan terhadap penduduk sendiri, tetapi
hanya untuk memerangi "penceroboh asing."
Ini adalah kali pertama senjata Syria
menjadi realiti rasmi, sejak negara adalah salah satu daripada hanya 6 yang
bukan penandatangan Konvensyen Senjata Kimia tahun 1992. Stok penimbal berupa agen
saraf Syria, termasuk gas mustard, serta peluru berpandu Scud yang mampu
penghantarannya, aman mengikut kepada Kementerian Luar. Laporan media
mengatakan senjata sedang beralih dari tapak pertempuran antara rejim pro-dan
pasukan pembangkang yang teruk.
Torrent amaran membanjiri Damsyik ekoran
kenyataan, sebagai pegawai dari EU dan PBB menyuarakan kebimbangan mereka tentang
kemungkinan penggunaan senjata kimia. Pada hari Selasa, Rusia berkata ia
berharap Syria akan mematuhi oleh protokol Geneva yang disahkan oleh negara
Arab pada tahun 1968. Dokumen itu melarang penggunaan, pengeluaran atau
menyimpan senjata kimia. Kementerian Luar Rusia berkata, "mendakwa bahawa
pihak berkuasa Syria akan terus ketat mematuhi obligasi anggapan
antarabangsa."
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama dan
Pentagon serta-merta memberi amaran kepada Damsyik terhadap "kesilapan
tragik" mengerahkan senjata sedemikian dengan Obama yang mengesankan pada
rejim bahawa Assad, "DUNIA sedang menonton."
Pada masa yang sama, Israel telah seolah -
olah mencadangkan kenaikan hanya pada campur tangan untuk menjamin senjata jika
rejim Assad runtuh. Kementerian Luar Israel mengakui "bukan sistem senjata
konvensional keseluruhan adalah di bawah kawalan penuh rejim (Syria)."
Tetapi pengetahuan ini nampaknya tidak membubarkan imej Hizbullah meletakkan
tangan pada senjata. Untuk melengkapkan pertukaran ini, Iran Jazayeri juga
menolak Selasa keupayaan "musuh" untuk menggulingkan kerajaan Syria.
"Rakyat negara ini dan rakan-rakan tidak akan membenarkan satu langkah
untuk berlaku," katanya.
Namun, ramai yang mengiktiraf corak perang
psikologi. Paul Lashmar, seorang wartawan penyiasatan dan akademik di
Universiti Brunel London, berkata tuduhan itu boleh mensasarkan satu matlamat:
untuk mewujudkan imej Syria berbahaya, yang tidak dapat menjalankan kawalan ke
atas dirinya sendiri.
"Senjata kimia dan biologi adalah tidak
baik terhadap unit pemberontak yang berjuang dalam pertempuran dari rumah ke
rumah. Ini adalah senjata anda menggunakan negara terhadap negara dalam
pertempuran berskala penuh. Hakikat bahawa Amerika dan negara-negara lain
mendapat begitu prihatin adalah untuk meletakkan penekanan kepada Syria sebagai
sebuah negara penyangak. Apa yang sedang berlaku adalah untuk menekankan bahawa
ini adalah sebuah negara dengan senjata kimia dan biologi yang muncul untuk
menjadi luar kawalan, "Lashmar kepada RT.
Sementara itu, PBB menganggarkan
kebangkitan 17 bulan di Syria telah mengambil lebih 15,000 nyawa, Kesatuan
Eropah (EU) mengetatkan sekatan senjata ke atas Syria. Sekarang negara-negara
EU yang diperlukan untuk mencari pesawat dan kapal-kapal jika mereka mempunyai
"alasan yang munasabah untuk mengesyaki mereka membawa senjata, barangan
dwi-guna atau peralatan yang digunakan untuk" penindasan "ke Syria.
Senarai hitam, sudah mengandungi 49 organisasi dan 129 orang, juga telah
diperluaskan kepada 26 orang, kebanyakannya: pegawai tentera. Bermula hari
Isnin mereka diharamkan daripada memasuki Kesatuan Eropah (EU) dan aset mereka
telah dibekukan.
Iran
threatens to ‘strike out’ at any intervention in Syria . . .
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has
friends in the region poised “to strike out” in the event of an intervention
into Syria, says a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The warning was
particularly sent to “hated” Arab countries.
“None of Syria's friends or the great front
of resistance has yet entered the scene, and in the event that this happens,
decisive blows will be struck at the enemy, especially the hated Arab rulers,”
Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, a spokesman of the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
Fars news agency.
No country in particular was mentioned.
Iran remains a key ally of official Damascus, while leaders of such Gulf
countries as Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Qatar openly support Syrian rebels. The hawkish rhetoric heard from Iran comes on
top of the exchange over Syria’s chemical and biological arsenal, which the
Arab country pledged Monday not to use against its own population, but only to
combat “foreign aggressors.”
This was the first time Syria’s arsenals
became an official reality, since the nation is one of just six non-signatories
to the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1992. Syria’s purported stockpiles of
nerve agents, including mustard gas, as well as Scud missiles capable of
delivery, are secure according to its Foreign Ministry. Media reports say the
weapons are being moved away from sites of severe clashes between pro-regime
and opposition forces.
A torrent of warnings flooded Damascus
following the statements, as officials from the EU and UN voiced their concerns
over the possible use of the chemical arsenal. On Tuesday, Russia said it hoped Syria would
abide by a Geneva protocol ratified by the Arab country in 1968. The document
bans the use, production or stockpiling of chemical weapons. Russia’s Foreign
Ministry said it "presumes that the Syrian authorities will continue to
rigorously abide by its assumed international obligations."
US President Barack Obama and the Pentagon
immediately warned Damascus against the “tragic mistake” of deploying the
weapons as such with Obama impressing on Assad’s regime that “the WORLD is
watching.”
At the same time, Israel has been hinting
at an intervention to secure the weapons if Assad’s regime collapses. Israel’s
Foreign Ministry admits “the entire non-conventional weapons system is under
the full control of the [Syrian] regime.” But this knowledge apparently did not
dissolve the image of Hezbollah laying its hands on the arsenal. To complete this exchange, Iran’s Jazayeri
also dismissed Tuesday the ability of “enemies” to overthrow the Syrian
government. “The country's people and its friends will not allow such a move to
take place,” he said.
Still, many recognize the pattern of a
psychological war. Paul Lashmar, an investigative journalist and academic at
London’s Brunel University, says the accusation may be targeting one goal: to
create an image of dangerous Syria, which cannot exercise control over itself.
“Chemical and biological weapons are no
good against rebel units that are fighting in a house-to-house combat. These
are weapons you use nation against nation in a full scale battle. The fact that
Americans and other countries are getting so concerned is to put the emphasis
on Syria as a rogue nation. What is going on is to emphasize that this is a
country with chemical and biological weapons that appears to be out of
control,” Lashmar told RT.
Meanwhile,
as the UN estimates the 17-month uprising in Syria has taken over 15,000 lives,
the EU tightens an arms embargo on Syria. Now the EU countries are required to
search planes and ships if they have "reasonable grounds" to suspect
they are carrying arms, dual-use goods or equipment used for “repression” to
Syria. Blacklists, already containing 49 organizations and 129 people, were
also expanded to 26 people, mostly military officials. Starting Monday they are
banned from entering the EU and their assets have been frozen.
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