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The Evil
What is called “Syrian Opposition” is trying to root the sectarian soul in the Syrian community .Observing their statements on the dirty media is clearly showing what is their view toward their future Syria . I haven’t read any clear statement toward the national unity and its importance. I should here ignore Istanbul council and its allies and refer to the internal opposition. I should here exclude some of the leftists who participated in writing the new constitutional draft .I can assure that anybody who has observed the scene from the beginning of the plot will conclude that easily. Only those who have closed their minds at any opposite opinion will keep repeating their foolish…
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Popular Demands” Transmogrified to Achieve What America’s Might Failed to
did not pay enough attention to what was happening in Tunisia for many reasons, but one of the most important one was my argument against Tunisian people “We all seek a better democracy, but Tunisians who since their independence were never at war with anybody why should not they fight against their rulers for a better democracy and better freedom???” We, the Syrians, are disadvantaged with an aggressive expansionist enemy that had been for decades occupying parts of our territories and above all the troops of this enemy are no more than 40 miles away from the capital, Damascus, the center-nerve system of our homeland. My students at Damascus University, Open University Program, asked me…
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The Syrian Celebration
It will be my first experience in voting and deciding my future · The celebration which Syria is going to live on 26th of February is unique and rare in its history · The draft of the new constitution will be voted and people will participate in drawing their future · Syria is changing for better saving its values and its resistance line · No country from those which are lying at the Gulf has part of these democratic values rooted in the new draft nor they are ready to adopt such values· They are only screaming in their empty valley suspecting they are truly democracy keepers as well as guards· It is a pure…
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President al-Assad Receives Copy of the New Draft Constitution
DAMASCUS, (SANA)- President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday received a copy of the new draft constitution from the head of the National Committee charged with drafting a new constitution for the Syrian Arab Republic, during a meeting with the Committee’s members. President al-Assad is to review the draft constitution and refer it to the People’s Assembly before putting it to referendum.
Syria
Lavrov: Solution in Syria Should Be a Syrian One
MOSCOW, (SANA)- Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, reiterated that the UN Security Council would never allow any military intervention in Syria’s affairs. Minister Lavrov, in a press conference in Sidney, Australia Tuesday, said that the solution in Syria should be a Syrian one; and that the Syrians themselves and all Syrian groups should sit at negotiations table and agree among themselves, asserting that ‘Russia had never announced that the persistence of the regime was a pre-condition’. Minister Lavrov voiced regret over the instigations by some ‘foreign players’ in calling on the opposition to reject dialogue, describing such instigations as ‘wrong’, ‘provocative’ and as ‘leading to nothing new’. Kosachyov: Russia and China Reject the New Draft UNSC…
Al-Jafari: Syria’s Sovereignty, Independence and Territorial Integrity Are Red Line
NEWYORK, (SANA) – Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jafari on Tuesday stressed that Syria’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity are red line. Speaking during a Security Council session on the situation in Syria, al-Jafari said the Syrian patriotism rejects foreign interference and stresses on standing united in the face of sedition and division, renouncing violence and not resorting to arms while demanding reform. “Homelands are built by their people, and we as Syrians have ahead of us the opportunity to have true national dialogue and speed up reforms with the aim of establishing a real national partnership that preserves the security of the homeland and citizens as the only way…
President al-Assad Visits a Number of Army and Security Wounded Members, Assures Their Health Conditions
DAMASCUS, (SANA)-President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday visited a number of the Army and security wounded members, at Martyr Yousef al-Azmeh Hospital in Damascus, who were injured during confrontations with the armed terrorist groups which target the homeland and citizens in different Syrian areas. President al-Assad assured the health of the wounded, listening to the conditions of their injuries, wishing them quick recovery and inspecting with the doctors the health condition of the injured and the treatment process. The President underlined the necessity of offering the care needed for the wounded rapidly, particularly because they showed unique will, bravery and offered their most precious to preserve Syria’s security and stability. For their part, the army wounded…
Security Council towards New Historic Juncture through the Syrian Gate
The US sees no embarrassment to criticize Russia’s readiness to veto any resolution that violates the international law and harms the reputation of the Security Council as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced his country’s intolerance with bids of distorting it. Statistics indicate that the US has repeatedly used veto, more than any country, to obstruct resolutions condemning the Israeli flagrant violations of human rights against the Palestinians, the latest, its threat to veto a draft resolution on recognizing the Palestinian independent state. Today, Washington Ambassador to the UN Suzan Rice accuses the UNSC of lingering because it obstructed a US-Israeli wish, carried out by Arab tools, to intervene in the Syrian affairs, in reference…
AL’s Resolution : Useless and Valueless
Let us go deep in what may happen as a consequence of the AL adoption of “Gulf States “resolution over Syria. It is easy to be depressed and desperate from what we heard in the AL headquarter and the impolite words which Hamad and Saoud has said during the meeting and after it . It is easy also to think and admit they have the magic stick which can overthrow the regime in Syria and obligate it to accept their hopes based on nothing. The transferring of their resolution to the Security Council is the core of the issue. They think that by transferring it to the united nation and calling their western…
Al-Moallem: The Observers’ Report Didn’t Please Those Plotting Against Syria… the Solution is Syrian and Based on the People’s Interest
Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Walid al-Moallem said the Arab Ministerial Council’s decision, which stipulates what Syria must do, circumvented the Arab observer mission’s report which didn’t satisfy those plotting against Syria who have tried to draw a future for Syria that is very far from the will of the Syrians as if we are a country whose will is usurped, illustrating his point with the proverb “he who lacks something can’t offer it.” In a press conference held on Tuesday, al-Moallem said that the stance of the Syrian leadership towards what Syria is facing inside and outside is firm and strong, and that the solution in Syria is not that which had been…
Syria Rejects AL Council’s Decision as Violation of International Sovereignty, Blatant Interference in Its Internal Affairs
DAMASCUS, (SANA)- Syria rejects the decisions taken by the Arab League (AL) Council on the ministerial level regarding Syria which are outside the Arab work plan and the Protocol signed with the AL, a Syrian official source said on Monday. The source added that Syria considers these decisions a violation of its national sovereignty, a blatant interference in its internal affairs and a flagrant violation of the objectives for which the AL was established and a breach of Article VIII of its Charter. “Syria condemns this decision, which came in the framework of the conspiratorial scheme carried out against Syria, a scheme which has been revealed to our people and the Arab world,” the source…
The role of illiteracy in forming the “Revolutionists”
The rumors which are spreading that those who are demonstrating against the Syrian authority are paid by coordinators in the Syria’s flash points are real. I have assured this fact myself . going the deep countryside will let you see how those coordinators are working and how they are using the real poverty and joblessness to attract people and distribute money of them . Everyone has his own price. The teen has his own price , the young has aslo a price as well as the adult has its own price . I have observed their mechanism in attracting people through a period of month. I was shocked by what I have seen . The…
Destroying the illusion
I have written before about the military solution in Syria and the preparation of the Syrian army to free Syria from the terrorists, who are terrifying people and spread fear in the nation . This was based on my analysis of the Syrian official treatment of the situation in the country and how they are dealing with those killers. The first step in this military solution was the amnesty law issued by the president Assad. This law which freed hundreds is the first step in the solution . the period, which it has given to those who was implicated in the events in Syria, will be followed by a harsh treatment of the militants, who…
Algerian Foreign Minister: AL Has Some Problems with Armed Opposition in Syria
UNITED NATIONS, (SANA)- Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci said that the Syrian government has taken some steps to defuse the crisis in the country, but the Arab League (AL) has problems with the armed opposition in particular. In a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday , Medelci added the government has taken some steps as the heavy weapons were withdrawn from the cities which are facing problems and a few thousand prisoners were released, stressed that there is a genuine openness of the mass media. “The feeling is that the Syrian government is working to exert more efforts,” he said, adding that he visited Syria recently and noticed the calmness in…
9 Citizens, among them French Journalist, Martyred by Mortars of Armed Terrorist Group in Homs
HOMS, (SANA)- Nine persons were martyred, among them a French journalist, and several others were injured including a Belgian journalist after an armed terrorist group fired mortars at foreign media delegation and a gathering of citizens who were victims of terror at Ekrima neighborhood in Homs. SANA reporter in Homs said Wednesday that the terrorists fired mortars on foreign journalists while they were inspecting the debris of destruction and chaos perpetrated by the armed terrorist groups in a number of buildings at New Ekrima neighborhood and make interviews with a number of citizens affected by those acts. The terrorist act left 9 persons martyred, among them French Journalist Gilles…
President al-Assad: “We are Victorious against Conspiracy”
DAMASCUS, (SANA)_ H.E. President Bashar al-Assad reiterated here Wednesday Syria’s determination to steadily go ahead with the ongoing reform process. In a spontaneous word to the tens of thousands of the Syrians, who gathered since the early hours of the morning at Umayyad Square, President al-Assad underscored that Syria is also to steadily go forward in fighting terrorism. “We are to be victorious ,with and by you, against the conspiracy,” said President al-Assad to the jubilant Syrians, who hoist the Syrian flag, his posters, and national banners. “I met you to derive the power in the face of what Syria is being exposed to,” added President al-Assad, highly lauding the Syrians’ awareness, power, and strength…
Middle East
Popular Demands” Transmogrified to Achieve What America’s Might Failed to
did not pay enough attention to what was happening in Tunisia for many reasons, but one of the most important one was my argument against Tunisian people “We all seek a better democracy, but Tunisians who since their independence were never at war with anybody why should not they fight against their rulers for a better democracy and better freedom???” We, the Syrians, are disadvantaged with an aggressive expansionist enemy that had been for decades occupying parts of our territories and above all the troops of this enemy are no more than 40 miles away from the capital, Damascus, the center-nerve system of our homeland. My students at Damascus University, Open University Program, asked me…
US, Israel, S. Arabia Support Suppression of Protests in Bahrain to Attain Interests
TEHRAN (FNA)- Washington and Tel Aviv support the Bahraini regime’s brutal acts against the people and Saudi Arabia even plays a main and obvious role in repressing protesters in the tiny Persian Gulf island for the sake of their own interests, a senior Bahraini opposition figure said. Speaking to FNA, a senior leader of the February 14 Coalition Sheikh Issa bin Ali al-Jamri stated that the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are providing unlimited support for the Al Khalifa regime and help it in the massacre of the innocent people in the tiny Persian Gulf island. He said that Riyadh and Amman are supporting Manama because they fear the spread…
Europe Begs Tehran to Avoid Cutting Oil Exports
A prominent Iranian lawmaker announced that the European countries have demanded the parliament to stop passing a double-urgency bill on cutting the country’s oil exports to the EU members. “So far the ambassadors of several European countries such as France, Greece, Germany and Italy have desperately rushed to the parliament to call for restraint against passing a bill on stopping [the Iranian] oil exports to Europe,” Vice-Chairman of the parliament’s Energy Commission Nasser Soudani said on Saturday. Soudani further highlighted that the double-urgency bill is still on the table and that the Iranian lawmakers have expressed readiness to approve it. After months of debates, the EU member states eventually reached an agreement in their…
Saudi Arabia Unable to Fulfill Oil Pledge
Analysts believe that Saudi Arabia cannot live up to its promise to fill the oil-supply gap in case the US-led European Union imposes a ban on Iranian oil supplies. Analysts said failure could put further price pressure on markets already roiled by tensions linked to efforts to curb Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program. There are encouraging signs that the West is re-examining the prospects for a diplomatic solution. But that does not mean the European Union is likely to drop proposed measures to ban Iranian oil imports from mid-year that are due to be discussed by its foreign ministers on Monday. Iran fired back this week after Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi energy minister, said in…
Oil Sanctions against Iran to Harm European Consumers
The Iranian oil ministry in a statement downplayed the effects of the US and EU’s unilateral oil sanctions against Tehran, and said such embargoes will merely harm the European economies and oil consuming countries. European sanctions against Iran’s oil exports will affect world economy and hurt European and non-European countries, the statement said on Monday. “Hurried decision by EU states to use oil as a political tool will have a negative effect on the world economy and especially on recovering European economies which are fighting to overcome the global financial crisis,” it added. The statement continued that since just 18 percent of oil produced by Iran is exported to European countries, Islamic Republic can easily…
Iran Adopts Necessary Measures to Protect Scientists
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said that Tehran has adopted proper measures to protect its scientists and elites against terrorist attacks. “The president (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) issued strict orders to relevant officials at the beginning of the current (Iranian) year (started on March 21) to put protection of nuclear scientists on their working agenda,” Rahimi said on the sidelines of a ceremony held here in Tehran on Tuesday to commemorate the martyrs of Iran’s nuclear industry. “Some remarkable measures have been taken in this regard and all people active in the nuclear sector have come under a special protection plan accordi ng to the very same order,”…
Fujairah pipeline test in May
Abu Dhabi has set May as the start of trial operations of a pipeline that will cut across much of the UAE’s barren desert to transport massive quantities of crude from its oilfields straight to the Indian Ocean. Oil from the emirate’s massive onshore fields will begin flowing on a trial basis in May before the project is fully commissioned a month later to allow Abu Dhabi to bypass the Hormuz Strait through which nearly a fifth of the world’s crude exports pass every day. “The trial stage for the pipeline will begin in May…an agreement has already been signed between Adnic and I[ic,” the semi-official Arabic language daily Alittihad said, quoting ADNOC sources. International…
Oil up on Iran, Nigeria supply worries
LONDON (Reuters) – Brent crude rose more than $1 to over $113 on Thursday on worries a showdown between Iran and the West in the Middle East Gulf and a strike in Nigeria could disrupt oil supplies. Tension between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program has increased after an Iranian nuclear scientist was blown up in his car by a motorbike hitman on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to blame Israeli and U.S. agents. Brent crude futures for February rose $1.64 to a high of $113.88 a barrel and was trading close to that level by 1225 GMT. U.S. crude oil was up more than $1 above $102. Iran has threatened to close…
First nuclear fuel rod tested in Iran
Scientists and researchers at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran have successfully tested the first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod containing natural uranium, Iranian news agencies reported on Sunday. According to the reports, the first nuclear fuel rod was loaded into the core of the Tehran research reactor as part of an experiment to test its performance in operation. Now Iran should convert fuel rods into fuel plates to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment. Iran has constructed an advanced plant at the Isfahan nuclear facility for manufacturing nuclear fuel plates. With the construction of the plant, Iran is now among the few countries that can manufacture both nuclear fuel…
Turkish government is Responsible about Tense Atmosphere in Region
ANKARA, (SANA) – Official spokesman of the Turkish Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi) Mustafa Yilmaz said that Syria and Turkey are neighboring countries brought together by deep-rooted fraternity, but recently there were attempts to destroy the historic relations between them which upset the Turkish people. In an interview with the Syrian TV’s correspondent in Ankara, Yilmaz said that the recent stance of the Justice and Development Party caused concern among the Turkish people and politicians, stressing that the biggest winners if a confrontation occurred between Syria and Turkey are Israel and the United States. He pointed out that the Turkish people believe that Turkish media isn’t portraying the reality of what is happening in Syria, and that media…
“Ties with Islamists” pushes UAE To revoke its nationality form 6 persons
The UAE has withdrawn citizenship from six individuals who were accused of threatening national security, according to a report on Thursday. The citizenship was withdrawn in accordance with an order issued by the UAE president HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan dated Dec 4, a source at the General Administration for Naturalisation, Residency and Ports Affairs, told the WAM news agency. The accused, who originally carried the nationality of other countries, were granted UAE citizenship by naturalisation. The source told WAM “those persons had perpetrated over the past years acts threatening the national security of the UAE through their connection with suspicious regional and international organisations and personalities.” The report added that some…
‘Iran oil sanctions bad idea if they work’
Any sanctions on Iran’s oil sector imposed over the country’s nuclear program will backfire on the United States, regardless of their outcome, says an energy economist and columnist. “Oil sanctions are a bad idea if they work, and a bad idea if they fail,” wrote Robin M. Mills on the award-winning Foreign Policy website. If the sanctions work, American allies will be punished and some economically vulnerable countries, such as Greece, will suffer a cutoff of oil just at the time they can least afford it, he explained. Or, if they “succeed” more dramatically, and Iran’s exports are really interrupted, oil prices will soar, “plunging the world back into renewed recession,” Mills added. “But most likely, oil…
ElBaradei: U.S.-Egypt in secret talks
(UPI) — Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said the United States is in talks with Egypt’s military council to try to preserve the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. ElBaradei said Tuesday secret negotiations between U.S. representatives and Egypt’s ruling military council are aimed at ensuring the country’s democratically elected government will maintain the 1979 peace treaty, Haaretz reported. ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the Iranian news agency the Egypt-Israel peace treaty was the focus of the talks between U.S. officials and Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. “The negotiations were completely secret and confidential” and the military council said they were about “bilateral and mutual relations,” ElBaradei told Fars. “But…
Iran threatens to block key oil shipments
(UPI) — Iran will block all oil shipments through a key Persian Gulf waterway if the West imposes sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, a senior Iranian official said. “If they impose sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, then even one drop of oil cannot flow from the Strait of Hormuz,” Iranian First Vice President Mohamed Reza Rahimi said. The narrow strait, which includes Iranian territorial waters, is a vital artery for transporting about a third of the world’s tanker-borne oil and about 17 percent of all world oil shipments. About 13 tankers carrying 15.5 million barrels of crude oil pass through the strait on an average day, including crude from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and…
Iran Displays Downed US Drone
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh Thursday evening appeared in a TV report to explain how Iranian forces downed the United States’ highly advanced radar-evading spy drone last week. “Recently, our collected intelligence and precise electronic monitoring revealed that this aircraft intended to infiltrate our country’s airspace for spying missions,” the General said, and added, “After it entered the Eastern parts of the country, this aircraft fell into the trap of our armed forces and was downed in Iran with minimum damage.” “The wing-to-wing width of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone is around 26 meters with a length of 4.5 meters and height of 1.84…
US has been defeated in the Middle East
Analyzing the scene In the region , we will reach to a point this America is defeated and the entire middle east is waiting its pull out from Iraq to see the consequence of this defeating . The new axis which is forming in the region is drawing the limit of the western intervention in the middle east . The consequence of the defeating will shack thrones and overthrow others. The allies of the US failure project in the region are finding themselves alone facing strong and solid powers ,which have rejected all US policies in the region and fight it. We shouldn’t forget the Year 2003 . It was the beginning of the big clash betweenUS…
Hezbollah Thwarts New Israeli Spy Operation
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement said it has exposed Israeli espionage device in Southern Lebanon, causing the “Zionist enemy” to bomb the equipment with an unmanned drone. Two people were injured after an explosion was heard in Southern Lebanon on Friday – a blast that may have been caused by an IDF drone, the Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star reported. Addressing reports on the incident, Hezbollah said in a statement that it “has thwarted an Israeli spy operation by uncovering a wireless device in a valley between the towns of Srifa and Deir Kifa.” The group said after the device was exposed, “the Zionist enemy bombed it with a drone. No operative was hurt.” Earlier, a…
Maliki: Iraq Ready to Take over from US
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stressed his country’s capability and preparedness to manage its affairs as soon as the US troops pull out of the country. Nouri al-Maliki told The AP in an exclusive interview Saturday that he has “no concerns whatsoever” about security after all American troops withdraw by Jan. 1. Iraqi security forces have proven themselves capable and able to protect their own country, he said. “Nothing has changed with the withdrawal of the American forces from Iraq on the security level because basically it has been in our hands,” he said. The prime minister said Iraq has been largely responsible for security ever since the American military pulled out of the cities in…
The US and Israel dominate the Arab League and are controlling it
TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Bahraini political activist and opposition figure lashed out at the Arab League’s double-standard policies towards developments in the Arab countries, and said the bloc lacks independence and only complies with the US and Israel’s orders. Speaking to FNA on Sunday, member of the Society for Supporting Bahraini People Qassem al-Hashemi said that the Arab League is exercising double-standard attitudes towards Arab states as it is tough and has adopted an unjust approach towards Syria while it ignores suppression of protesters in Bahrain. He said the Arab League’s fear from the West and the US has made it unable to adopt correct decisions about developments in the Arab world. “The US and…
Iran to Send New Living Creatures into Space
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian scientists plan to send a second biocapsule of living creatures, probably mice, into the space, an academic revealed on Sunday without giving any specific date for the launch. “The plan for sending living creature into space was approved and it is waiting for a final approval,” Mansour Kabkanian, a professor at Tehran’s Amirkabir University, said on Sunday. “After the final approval, the plan for sending living creatures into space will be implemented,” he said, adding that the country plans to send the living creatures to the altitude of 300km below the 70 degrees orbit. Kabkanian also mentioned that Iranian scientists have proposed sending mice into space since they are stronger and more…


















