Click the image to read Iran’s view.
Who lost Syria? This may seem contrarian, but … the Iranian view is not all that different from other views of the revels as comprised of Taliban style radicals. Of course, Hazbolla hs no better and it is Hezbollah, backed by Iran that is fighting the Syrian regime’s battles.
The sadness here is awful. While Syria’s islamic neighbor Turkey is in the throes of a very real upsurge of secular, Western Islam, the choices in Syria seem to be between two horrors .. a Shiite dogmatic dictatorship enforced by Iran as a regional Islamic power vs. a radical Salafi government to replace Assad.
Why have we and Turkey not been successful over the last decades in planting at least the propaganda needed to grow a secular, Islamic state on the Turkish model?
If it is too late our best choice may be to back something like a Muslim Brotherhood movement. The media here ignore the claim that Hamas and the Morsi government in Egypt are developing a new form of democracy, one derived not from Western/Christ
ian traditions but from Islamic history.
A Hamas regime in Syria would be a dreadful threat to Israel, and a hard pill to swallow here but it may be the best thing for the Syrian people.