In an article for The National Review by by Ray Takeyh, the Hasib Sabbagh Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and a co-author of The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East, he writes that the incoming Trump administration will confront a Middle East in turmoil.
Taketh believes that the Obama presidency failed in its legacy on foreign affairs in its Iran policy. Today, Iran’s leaders possess a nuclear infrastructure that he says is expanding and “is blessed by the international community”.
A rally was held in front of the Iranian regime’s embassy in Paris at the invitation of ‘Syrian Revolution coordination’ on Saturday, December 24.
Hundreds of Syrian people, as well as members of the Iranian Resistance and their supporters, gathered together to protest the crimes against humanity endured by the people of Aleppo. They condemned Bashar Assad and the Iran regime’s forces and mercenaries, as well as the attempts of the Iranian Guard to block the evacuation of East Aleppo.
The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani’s presence in Aleppo proves the failure of US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy regarding Iran.
In an article for Al-Arabyia, Heshmat Alavi, a political and rights activist, writes that, “We are talking about a man grossly responsible for massacring innocent people across the Middle East,” and says that seeing photos of Soleimani touring the city shows how desperately Iran “needed to boast its tactical victory in Aleppo, knowing its future in Syria is actually quite gloomy.”
Following a trilateral summit between Russia, Turkey and the Iranian regime, the participating parties issued a statement called ‘The Moscow Declaration’. The Syrian opposition criticized the summit for being held without them being invited, rejecting the decisions made for the Syrian people without their representatives being present.
“A power struggle in Syria is underway between Russia and the Iranian regime”, Orient TV interviews Iran expert Hassan Hashemian.
Hassan Hashemian, Iran expert:
Struan Stevenson, president of the European Iraqi Freedom Organization, stated that international pressure has forced Iran to stop the production of a nuclear bomb, but, in order to get that, the West made “unjustified concessions” during the nuclear negotiations.
The Iranian Regime and its subsidiary terror organisation, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), played a significant role in retaking Aleppo from the democratic Syrian Resistance forces, according to a report by the democratic Iranian opposition.
The Iranian Regime released a “Charter of Citizens Rights” on the same day that the UN General Assembly condemned the systematic violation of human rights within the country.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Richard Ratcliffe’s wife, is behind bars in Iran for allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, as he prepares to spend his first Christmas without her and her daughter.
