“This is not just about Syria, this is about finding an excuse to attack Iran”, was the explanation of an Iranian journalist, Ghanbar Naderi, in his interview with Al Jazeera. “It’s obvious that armed groups and gangs have been unable to topple Bashar al-Assad after more than a year, and now they are trying to find a scape goat in Iran again,” he said in an interview from Tehran.
Iran criticized Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey of arming the opposition in Syria in cooperation with Israel and US.
The key international players in Syria’s “war within” have been “more successful at sustaining the fighting than ending it”, concluded the International Crisis Group.