28 Mar 2024
[caption id="attachment_45622" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption]
There were two distinct messages from Iran on Saturday. The first came from the Revolutionary Guards, who threaten an asymmetric response and the second from Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
The Revolutionary Guards, via media outlets close to them, warn that Iran will respond to U.S. strikes on Syria indirectly via allied groups including Palestinian PFLP and Fatah and Lebanese Hezbollah (see separate analysis: Revolutionary Guards Push For “Asymmetric Warfare” Over Syria.)

Meanwhile,, Foreign Minister Zarif continues to push Damascus’s line — back up also by Moscow — that the August 21 chemical attack was carried out by foreign-backed insurgent groups. Zarif said that Tehran gave Washington information on the transfer of chemical agents, including sarin, from outside Syria at the end of 2012, “but the U.S. never replied”.

Playing on Western fears — already exaggerated in the Western media — of the ascendency of “Al Qaeda-linked groups” in Syria, Zarif said that “extremist groups” could well have used chemical agents. Zarif added that “takfiri groups” had encouraged “fratricide” and “war” and the result of this were the horrific images that we have seen in the media of the chemical attacks.

By EA WorldView

 

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