An extensive role in the fall of Aleppo, was played by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, building a network of bases around the city, and directing militiamen from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan to do the killing, was revealed by an Iranian opposition groups in a new intelligence report.
In Paris, in front of the Iranian embassy on Saturday 17th December, a rally organised by the ‘Syrian Revolution Coordination’ was held.
Hundreds of Syrian people and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathered to protest against and express their disgust of the horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity that are taking place in Aleppo by the Syrian dictator Assad with the help of the Iranian regime and its militias and forces. They also gathered to protest against the IRGC that is preventing the safe evacuation of innocent civilians from eastern Aleppo.
On 7th December at Capitol Hill, a briefing took place about the future of Iran policy. It was hosted by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI).
Keynote speakers included U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs (HFAC), and Eliot Engel (D-NY), ranking member of HFAC.
Adel al-Jubeir, the Foreign Minister for Saudi Arabia, spoke with US Secretary of State John Kerry at a press conference. He said that decisions regarding Yemen must be made based on the recommendations of the United Nations and the Gulf initiative.
The Foreign Minister also called on the international community to take a tougher stance with regards to the Iranian regime and its interference in the internal affairs of other nations in the region.
On Friday, France announced that it was calling on the United Nations to guarantee the safe evacuation of people in Aleppo. It is also urging the UN to make sure it is organised by international observers. Furthermore, hospitals should be protected and humanitarian aid should be provided for the civilians.
As forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad overrun Aleppo, social media is making the carnage obvious, so politicians in the West cannot claim to be ignorant about the atrocities that were committed there. There has been footage of Syrian children running for cover, mothers crying for their loved ones, indiscriminate bombings.
The downplaying of Iran’s role in Syria by the Obama administration, order to avoid endangering the nuclear deal, is generating criticism, a characterization the administration has rejected but that experts and journalists continue to wage.
The longstanding siege of Aleppo is almost over but what had been the US’s role in the war?
Andrew Beatty, on Yahoo News, quoted academic Samantha Power, who was writing about the Holocaust and the ‘never again’ promise which is often not realised.
Recently in Iran there have been over a hundred arrests. On the evening of 9th December, a villa in Mashhad was raided and eight women and 16 men were arrested. The attendees were celebrating at a party at the time of their arrest. These 24 people are to be further investigated by judicial authorities.
At the beginning of November it was reported that police in Tehran raided a house where 17 young people were having fun at a mixed-sex Halloween party in traditional costumes.
The fundamentalist mullahs regime in Iran has been founded on two main principles. Firstly, domestic crackdown. Secondly, the export of Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism and extremism. The Islamic Revolution as they call it.
Since the beginning of its existence, the West has appeased the mullahs time and time again. As a result, ISIS has been born and the Middle East is a wreck.
