10/04/2011

By: Reza Kahlili

According to Fars News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Iranian revolutionary guard, the dictator in Syria, Bashar al-Assad in a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmad Davutoglu threatened the western countries that if Syria comes under a NATO attack, it would set fire on the Middle-East, specially Israel.

“If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than 6 hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv,” Assad said after Davutoglu conveyed the United States’ warning message to him.

He also reiterated that Damascus will also call on Hezbollah in Lebanon to launch such an intensive rocket and missile attack on Israel that the Israeli spy agencies could never imagine.

“All these events will happen in three hours, but in the second three hours, Iran will attack the US warships in the Persian Gulf and the US and European interests will be targeted simultaneously,” Assad said.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March.

Over two thousand people have been killed by the Syrian security forces and thousands have been arrested.

The US and the European Union have been criticizing Damascus throughout the unrest. Backed by the US, European nations are pushing for a UN vote  on a resolution threatening “targeted measures” if the Syrian regime does not halt its crackdown against civilians.

The Western alliance recently went so far as calling for Assad’s ouster and threatening the regime with wide-ranging economic sanctions and foreign military invasion.

Turkey as a NATO member has also warned on various occasions that it would take action against Bashar al-Assad’s government.