Sunday, September 8, 2013

Iran FM Warns Against U.S. Military Action in Syria

A Fire that Will Burn Everyone

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Baghdad for his first official trip abroad as minister, said at a news conference that the U.S. will ignite a fire across the Middle East if it attacks Syria.

“We are concerned about warmongering in this region,” Zarif said. “Those who are short-sighted and are beating the drums of war are starting a fire that will burn everyone,” he added. (Reuters, 8 September)

Zarif was received by his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari and was also expected to meet Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki later today.

“Interference (in Syria) will affect the neighboring countries maybe directly, including Iraq, which will be affected in terms of security and humanitarian issues,” Iraq’s foreign minister Zebari said at the news conference.

Meanwhile, Alireza Miryousefi, the spokesman for Iran's UN mission in New York, on Saturday denied the allegations, first reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, that the U.S. had intercepted a directive from a senior Iranian military official instructing Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq to attack U.S. interests in Baghdad in the event of a strike. Miryousefi called the allegations “baseless.”
Photo credit: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (C) arrives at Baghdad International Airport. September 8, 2013. (REUTERS)

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

some will be burned more than others, Zarif. remember that.

Mark Pyruz said...

Alternate title for this blog post:

"Iran and Iraq against impeding U.S.-led strike on Syria."

On foreign policy matters, particularly regional ones, it is very rare when Iraq and Iran take different sides on an issue..

Anonymous said...

It's because of these "warnings" that the US should attack Syria, and should bomb Iran continuously upon the first indication that Iran has (in a cowardly terrorist manner) retaliated.

Anonymous said...

This is a lesson to Obama to not do a few strikes. You need a thousand sorties per day over Iran, bombing anything that moves. Don't pussyfoot Obama.

Anonymous said...

Don't worry the Islamic regimes front line in Syria will crumble and Hezbollah will be isolated.As that mullah Taeb once said, " If we lose Syria we will lose the streets of Tehran".

Anonymous said...

that's just stupid and crazy.

the US has no intention of performing any massive bombing of Iran because there is neither need nor reason to do that.

Anonymous said...

The need is to make sure that iranians are beaten into submission which is the only way to deal with them. Otherwise they'll retaliate.

Anonymous said...

Would that be instead of the cowardly terrorist manner in which the Iraq war was started on pack of lies and chemical weapons were used on Vietnam and Gaza?

mat said...

The administration of US President Barack Obama has admitted that it lacks “irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence” for its claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in an attack last month.

Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri says the Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) plan to stage joint maneuvers in the near future.

“A joint military exercise by the Army and the IRGC will be held in the second half of the current [Iranian] year (Started March 21, 2013),” Baqeri said on Monday.

“The latest weapons and war tactics which have never been tested will be tested in the drill,” the Iranian military official added.

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't you be tying your children together to clear a mine field you iranian terrorist?

Anonymous said...

Very revealing that you bring up abuse of children. zionists are world leaders in that

Advocacy group: Israel is a pedophile's paradise

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/advocacy-group-israel-is-a-pedophile-s-paradise-1.262570

Anonymous said...

Anon 1:41 AM, it is well known that zionists are scared of Iran's ability to retaliate.

Anonymous said...

You are unable to deny the truth of Anonymous September 9, 2013 at 6:53 AM.

Anonymous said...

Anon 2:38 PM and 8:46 AM, the sick voice of warmongers.