08/28/2011

Islamic regime’s Fars News Agency reports:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has underlined that Tehran would maintain and reinvigorate its alliance with Syria under any kind of condition and would defend Damascus against any possible military aggression by the West, a report by a Lebanese newspaper said.

According to the Lebanese daily Al-Diyar, Ahmadinejad’s remarks were made during a meeting with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in Tehran on Thursday.

The report said that Sheikh Hamad was conveying a message to President Ahmadinejad calling on Iran to abandon support for Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The daily said that the meeting by the Qatari Emir has failed to yield his desirable result since President Ahmadinejad strongly emphasized that “any Western aggression against Syria would make every Muslim to stand beside Syria”.

“That would be the action Iran will take,” the daily quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

Meantime, the report said that the Iranian officials have told the Qatari Emir that the US policy in the region will lead to “confrontation”, and cautioned that such a confrontation would entail dire consequences for all sides.

Note:

The Iranian leaders’ top priority is to prevent the fall of the Assad government. Such a fall would trigger several crises for the Iranian leadership: It would impact their influence in the Middle East, threaten the survival of Hezbollah in dominating events in Lebanon, and could reignite unrest in Iran where its citizens would hope to remove their own dictator…

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