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June 14th, 2016 
Awake Goy In a recent address to Parliament, Syrian President Bashar Al Assad reaffirmed his commitment to eradicating terrorism from Syria. Since as early as 2006, and climaxing in 2011, Syria has been embattled in a proxy war sponsored by the imperialist countries. Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and the US have all provided the logistical support necessary for terrorist groups to wreak havoc on the secular state. The conflict has reached a virtual stalemate. Western bombs and Special Forces continue to be employed in Syria in the so-called fight against ISIS terrorists. However, the imperialist alliance has said and done little in regard to Turkey’s recent escalation of the conflict.
President Assad made his statement in the midst of a renewed charge by the Erdogan government to escalate regime change efforts. The Russian Center for Reconciliation reported earlier this June that 160 Al Nusra Front terrorists have traveled to Aleppo from Turkey to fight the Syrian government. Al-Nusra front, often clumped into the so-called “moderate rebels” Washington supports, is an Al-Qaeda affiliate. This band of takfiri terrorists has committed similar atrocities to the ISIS, but with open support from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the US. The goal of this support has always been the same: to weaken and eventually overthrow the Syrian government.
Syria is a prime target of imperialism for both geopolitical and economic reasons. Syria is a close friend to Iran and Iraq, two of the largest oil producers in the world. Syria is also major exporter of natural gas. In 2011, Syria rejected a Qatari offer to run a pipeline through Syria and into Turkey to transport gas to the European market. Syria instead opted to pursue a gas pipeline project with Iran and Iraq.
The rejection of the Qatari pipeline wasn’t the first time Syria was seen as a pariah to the US and its regional allies. Syria’s independence has been a long standing problem for the imperialist system as a whole. The secular government of Syria has never accepted IMF and World Bank debt bondage that plagues so much of the planet. Syria also has strong ties with Russia, which date back to the mutual ties the Soviet Union developed with the independent government during the 1967 Israeli war of aggression. The Syrian government has been a historic friend to the Palestinian people, providing citizenship to displaced Palestinians and supporting their efforts to overturn Israeli colonialism.
For these reasons, Syria has been a target of Western/US regime change plans since the beginning of the so-called War on Terror in 2001. The US and its regional allies continue to wage proxy war on Syria based on aligned interests. Israel has for decades now possessed expansionist dreams outlined in the Oded Yinon Plan and Clean Break policy documents. These documents reveal that the Israeli establishment has actively worked toward the overthrow of stable governments in the Middle East by any means necessary. Furthermore, the US and its Gulf allies are currently in the midst of severe economic crisis. Syrian independence is ultimately a roadblock to fracturing Iran, and ultimately Russia and China, in the US quest to obtain full economic and political domination in the region. The conditions are thus ripe for the US and its regional allies to unite around the goal of destroying Syria.
The average person in the US has few opportunities to understand developments in Syria. Washington and the corporate media have collaborated since day one of the conflict to shape mass opinion. President Assad has been portrayed as a savage monster engaged in the mass murder of his own people. Terrorists have been labeled “moderate” opposition. The Syrian government has been accused of using chemical weapons on citizens. The nation’s election processes have been ignored or deemed illegitimate by the corporate press.
Washington and its corporate backers have spewed these lies around the clock for the last five years. But Syria has yet to fall. With Russian and Iranian aid, as well as the world’s people by its side, Syria has been able to maintain sovereignty in the face of overwhelming odds. Hundreds of thousands have died and many more thousands have fled. Yet the Syrian people remain steadfast in their fight for self-determination. It is this fight that elected President Assad back into office in 2014 with nearly 90 percent of the popular vote. It is this fight that contextualizes his bold remarks directed at Turkish support for takfiri terrorists in recent weeks.
The war on Syria is one of many hotspots in the War on Terror. The War on Terror has easily been the biggest lie of the 21st century. Its entire basis is rooted in a falsified holy war against Wahhabi terrorists. Yet it has been the US and its imperial allies that create, fund, and give perfect terrain for takfiri terrorism to thrive. Syria and much of the world understand this from direct experience. As blowback continues to haunt the streets of the US and West, Syria will need solidarity from progressive and radical forces in the war-making countries to put an end to the invasion all together.
Source Article from http://theiranproject.com/blog/2016/06/15/president-assad-stays-firm-imperialist-backed-terrorists-war-syria-continues/
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