Khamenehi’s last gift to Netenyahou

           Some time ago, I don’t know when exactly, a senior Israeli official, I think a member of Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu’s former cabinet, had said Israel must be very thankful to Iranian leaders, particularly to ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i the all powerful leader of the Islamic Republic and President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad for having, with their strong diatribes and menaces against Israel, with their open anti-Semitism and negation of Shoa, have helped us to get out from a desolate isolation in the world, particularly in Europe, and recover international public opinion’s support for our nation.

        He was, and is, absolutely right. In fact, Mr. Khamenehi’s, last and very important gift to the Jewish State was offered few weeks ago when he ordered the Lebanese Hezbollah to send his men to Syria fighting alongside Bashar Assad’s remaining forces, a decision which was officially confirmed by Mr. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Tehran-backed Shi’a organization.

 

         By this present to Israel’s Prime Minister, and a big mistake from his part, Iran’s much weakened leader has allowed Israel to attack and destroy with total impunity, with total freedom, any strategic military targets it considers as a threat to its security, like depots created by Iran for transferring arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon without being condemned or criticized by anyone, even Moscow.
           When asked by reporters what would be Iran’s reaction to last week’s bombing of such depots near Damascus by Israeli planes, Mr. Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister who was in Amman, said emphatically “Islamic forces fighting enemies in Syria knows how to answer Zionist’s aggression.”  

         In his first comments since the last Israeli air raids on Syria, an attack which was not confirmed or denied by Israel, the Syrian President said Tuesday 7 May 2013 that his army is capable of facing Israel, branding the attacks as acts of terrorism, according to a report in the Lebanon's Daily Star.

          "The Syrian people and its army who have made important achievements by fighting terrorist and Takfiri groups are capable of confronting Israel's ventures that represent one of the many faces of terrorism targeting Syria today,” Syrian State-controlled television quoted Mr. Assad as having said during a meeting with Mr. Salehi, who made an unannounced visit to Damascus, discussing with the Syrian doomed leader the aftermath of the alleged Israeli attacks.
           On Thursday 9 May 2013, the French News Agency AFP quoted the Syrian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Fayçal Moqdad as having said that his country would immediately and strongly respond any new attack from Israel against its territory.

          "Instructions have been given to respond at every new Israeli attack, he added in remarks following Israel aviation’s bombings on Friday and Sunday on bases near Damascus.

          Earlier, the French centre-right daily Le Figaro daily said, it had learned that the Syrian President Bashar Assad had said that his country “could have easily respond to Israeli air raids, but Damascus had opted for a strategic answer by opening the doors to the Resistance (Lebanese Hezbollah) and by transforming all the Syria a resistance nation ».

          “If from now on, a single missile is fired from Syria towards Israel, one can be sure that Tel Aviv would react immediately, sending its planes to destroy all Assad’s military installations, airports and missile launching sites, cutting Damascus umbilical cord with Tehran, and if on orders from Khameneh’i, Hezbollah sends missiles into Israel, be sure that not only Iran will be flat-bombed by America, Israel and some European nations, but at exactly the same time and without hesitation, Israel would destroy all Hezbollah’s military bases inside Lebanon”, said Dr Kourosh Erfani, the Managing Director- Editor of the Los Angeles based independent Andished television.

        In his view, Sepah, or the Revolutionary Guards, is the only institution which has the means of preventing such a calamity for Iran by forcing Mr. Ali Khameneh’i to drink the cup of poison, meaning to be less uncompromising with the demands of both the group of 5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations security Council plus Germany) and the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, and in exchange, getting the international community suspend the sanctions that are killing the present theocratic, unpopular regime.

 

          “At present”, he says, there are two men who can do that. One is Mr. Said Jalili, the Secretary of the Supreme Council on National Security (SCNS) and Iran’s chief negotiator with the 5+1. As a senior Revolutionary Guard officer, he has the backing of the powerful Sepah, and as a relative to Khameneh’i, he has his blessings. (By the time this article is written, he has not announced his candidacy)
          The other is Mr. Hassan Rohani. (He registered as candidate on Tuesday 7 May 2013)As a former senior nuclear negotiator with the European troika made of France, Germany and Great Britain under the presidency of the reformist president Mohammad Khatami he had agreed to suspend some nuclear activities like enriching uranium. Hence, he enjoys both the respect of the European community as well as the backing of large sectors in Iran, like the reformists, the supporters of former pragmatic president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, moderate clerics and, being the leader’s personal Representative at the SCNS, the good favor of Khameneh’i himself, Mr. Erfani concluded. ENDS

Safa Haeri