Spokesman: Israel Behind Crimes in Syria
News number: 9103080105 17:25 | 2012-05-29
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast blamed
foreign actors for the recent massacre of the Syrian people in Houla region,
and said Israel is involved in any crime committed in Syria since the regime
benefits from insecurity and turmoil in the Muslim Arab country.

"We palpably feel the Zionist regime's hand in Syria's internal
developments," Mehman-Parast said in his weekly press conference in Tehran
on Tuesday.

He reiterated that the only side which can gain from insecurity in Syria is
Israel, and added, "Any crime committed (in Syria) can be traced back to the
regime's hirelings."

Mehman-Parast described the 6-point plan proposed by the UN-Arab League
envoy, Kofi Annan, as the only way to settle the crisis in Syria, and said,
"The Zionist regime's backers aspire to the failure of Annan's plan."

Recent reports coming from Syria suggested that various enemy plots are
underway to spoil the peace mission of Annan in Syria to bring the Muslim
country back into turmoil and pave the way for an overthrow of Bashar
al-Assad's government.

According to reports, while Syria is striving hard to pave the ground for
holding healthy parliamentary elections with a fair race among candidates,
enemies of the Syrian people are exercising different plots to prevent the
peaceful trend of democratic changes in the country.

These enemy states lead and back up various terrorist operations, including
acts of sabotage and kidnapping, and use soft war tactics, including
psychological operations and threats, through the Syrian dissident
expatriates and armed groups within the country to deepen turmoil in Syria
and bring Annan's peace plan into failure as they want to see an overthrow
of Bashar al-Assad's government.

Meantime, the US has spread rumors about impending blitzkriegs on Syria in a
bid to affect the government forces and make Damascus consent to a Saudi and
Qatari offer for the establishment of a buffer zone.

Despite a ceasefire that took effect in Syria on April 12 and the presence
of UN observers, the country has been the scene of terrorist attacks in
recent days.

In the latest crime, terrorists assaulted pro-Assad civilians and military
troops in the central area of Houla on Friday, which was one of the
bloodiest single events in Syria's 15-month-old unrests, and gruesome images
of dozens of children killed in the attacks prompted a wave of international
outrage.

The UN said 32 children under the age of 10 were among the dead.

Annan has offered a six-point peace initiative which has been endorsed and
implemented by the Damascus government and nation, but armed rebels
supported by certain Arab rulers have repeatedly violated the terms of
Annan's plan.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks
by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being
reported across the country.

Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been
killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.

The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the
deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

In October, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President
Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its
Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any
possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been
staging various plots in the hope of stirring unrests in Syria once again.