With the beginning of the Syrian war, Iran became aware of a criminal role supporting the Syrian regime forces since the first day of the protests in Syria at all levels. The role of the Syrian regime and Iran, which is no less criminal and dangerous, as the forces committed
The Syrian regime and Iran, with Russian support, are the most horrific massacres in recent history, killing hundreds of thousands of Syrians, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said, “The confirmed death toll in Syria has reached about 350,000 people, and the real number is much higher.” While some local sources estimate The number reached one million dead, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that the war resulted in 2.1 million people injured, causing many of them permanent disabilities, and 13 million people were displaced to areas of asylum and displacement inside and outside the country, which created a continuing food and refugee crisis. These million numbers are hidden from a people whose number was only 20 million before the war, and the Syrian regime, Iran and its sectarian militias bear full responsibility for them, as the Syrian regime would not have been able to commit these atrocities without Iranian support for the Syrian regime. Where Iran was established.
Organized sectarian massacres amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity:
Iranian military crime against the Syrian people began early in 2011 and began to grow and intensify, little by little, under the leadership and supervision of the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani. News began to circulate about the presence of Iranian armed groups since the early days of the Syrian war, coinciding with the spread of Douma sniper demonstrations in the city. In Eastern Ghouta, in early April 2011, the demonstrators reported that “Iranian” snipers were stationed on government buildings who fired live bullets at the demonstrations on Friday.
After the regime adopted the behavior of storming villages and neighborhoods of rebellious cities since the beginning of 2012, killings began to take different and more terrifying forms, and mass massacres on a sectarian basis became the dominant feature of the stormed areas, especially those carried out with white weapons; For example, the siege of the Karm al-Zaytoun and al-Adawiya massacres, 53 children and women, Deir Baalba and Baba Amro, 755, Houla, 108, Darayya and Jdeideh 700, al-Bayda in Baniyas 72, al-Jura and al-Qusour in Deir ez-Zor 500, and in Al-Nabek and Jaz, and dozens of others. Declared and hidden – which is difficult to count – in the rest of the Syrian regions.
The majority of those massacres were linked to the presence of Iranian sectarian elements and groups that participated in the operations of slaughter and abuse, according to the testimony of most of the survivors. They confirmed hearing phrases in Persian; In addition to writings that carried sectarian slogans and symbols left by the perpetrators on the bodies of the victims and the walls of their homes.
These numbers should not go unnoticed because they are not just numbers, they are numbers for human souls, each of whom had a family, a home, dreams and wishes, and here we must transmit some horrific witnesses to some of the survivors of those massacres to feel the tragedy of these people.
Narrated __ Fawzia Hussein al-Khalaf __ of the people of the Al-Sad farm in the town of Houla in the countryside of Homs, the wife of “Samir Hussein Abdel Razzaq,” mother of eight, and a survivor of the Houla massacre, on the night of 5/25/2012, to recover the faces of her loved ones who were slaughtered, raped, and murdered.
“They killed 20 people in our house, my husband and my four daughters (Sawsan 21 years old and Huda).
18 years old and Nada 12 and the youngest was ten years old), they killed my daughter-in-law, who was seven months pregnant, and a child on her chest named Samir after his grandfather, my sister, my daughter-in-law, her two children, my cousin, her four children, my predecessor and her daughter.
They gathered us in an extreme room near the stairs of the roof, and opened fire on us randomly, then four of them attacked the one who was still alive by beating and raping, my husband was on the ground, when I begged one of them to let my daughter Sawsan and they were about to rape her, I tore my abaya and offered myself instead.
Two of them raped me, and then they raped my daughter, Sawsan, 21, in front of my husband, who was screaming and crying before they shot him in the head. We were 27 people in that house, only seven of us came out alive. They were checking on children and women, and they were preparing a knife for those who remained alive.
They tortured us sadly and brutally harassed the little girls, trampling them with their feet, pulling their hair to the point of uprooting and ripping their clothes. The screams of women and children filled the place and blood scattered on the walls. Faker, who raped my daughter
Sawsan was killed by a bullet in the head accidentally fired by his companion. One of the elements from Ghouta slaughtered Sawsan’s daughter with a knife while cursing her.
I still remember and will not forget how my children were holding on to me and calling for help, shouting “Mama”, but I was helpless in front of them while their father was killed at the door.
On a rocky and bumpy road, we carried the Free Army youth on their shoulders. I, my two daughters, Heba, Rasha, my niece Zahra, my cousin Fatima and two others were alive. Only among the 27 people, they walked with us for half an hour while they circled us between the rocks until we reached a small bus that took us to Kafr Laha.
I do not wish what I lived for anyone, and I do not want anyone to see a small part of it, I would not believe that people can descend to this level of insolence, sectarian hatred and brutality. Victims may transcend the memory.”
This is one of hundreds of thousands of painful stories that bleed hearts before eyes
For the victims of Iran and the Syrian regime and the Russians behind them, it is sad that all these massacres did not stir the conscience of the world to hold Iran accountable the Syrian regime and achieve justice. On the contrary, the Iranian expansion in Syria continues and has reached its climax, bringing the number of the Iranian sectarian militias to 70 thousand fighters, according to a map of the studies in Syria August 1, 2020, the presence of Iranian forces in Syria was revealed. The bases and points of presence of Iranian forces in Syria have reached only
It is not affiliated with its militias, and the map included 125 locations, spread over 10 governorates, at the forefront of which is Daraa with 37 locations, followed by Damascus and its countryside with
22 sites, and then Aleppo by 15 sites.
Displacement, starvation and demographic change
As for displacement, siege and starvation, which in turn is considered a crime, the siege of the Iranian militias affiliated with Qassem Soleimani and “Hezbollah” cannot be forgotten in the city of Madaya in the countryside of Damascus, and one of them says in a tweet on Twitter, “For those wishing to write:
The biography of Qassem Soleimani.. Do not forget the siege of Madaya among his achievements.” It is reported that this siege caused the death of dozens of civilians as a result of the interruption of food and drink, including children and women.
The military campaign on the city of Zabadani in 2015 led to most of its residents taking refuge
To the neighboring town of Madaya, the regime forces then bombed Madaya with explosive barrels, and imposed a tight siege on the city in cooperation with the Lebanese and Iranian Hezbollah militias. It is laughable and laughable that those who were besieging them are the same militias that claim that they will liberate Jerusalem from Israel!! In the end, the people of the camp will be displaced.
The demographic change and mass displacement in which Iran was the main perpetrator and culprit, and has become a human rights file that pursues Iran in international forums.
Where the newspaper “The Guardian” confirms that these operations are carried out by expelling the people from their homes, areas and lands, and burning the real estate registry offices and any papers
They prove their ownership of homes and land, and housing families and militia fighters in these areas.
The people of Homs also tried to return to their areas, but the regime considered that they did not have the necessary evidence that they were actually living in this area.
As for the Iranians’ goal, according to the newspaper, it is to create areas of influence that they can rule, in addition to creating a geographical extension for them with Lebanon, and a complete sectarian separation.
One of the clearest operations of displacement and demographic change is what happened in the city of Daraya in the western countryside of Damascus, where more than 300 Iraqi families were transferred to the city, to replace their original owners of the land.
This is after the displacement of about 700 fighters and their families to Idlib, and the prevention of the remaining families displaced to the towns of rural Damascus from returning to their homes.
– Destroy Aleppo
The battle of Aleppo is considered one of the most important stations in the Syrian war and is also one of the biggest witnesses to the crimes committed by the regime, Iran and Russia against the Syrians.
Under Soleimani’s supervision, which is the destruction of Aleppo, the second largest city in Syria, where Qassem Soleimani was proud to have taken control of the city of Aleppo at the end of 2016, roaming over its rubble and rejoicing at the victory of his country and its ally Assad with Russian air support and Afghani, Iraqi and Lebanese militias in control of all sides and control of all sides. Iranian media leaked pictures of Soleimani roaming the destroyed neighborhoods of Aleppo as a result of his forces’ bombing of them.
It is ironic that after all these crimes, which are inhumane to humanity, the Military Prosecution of the Syrian regime has come out to us to say that it will prosecute officials in the administration and the US forces for “evidence of violations” committed by the US forces on Syrian territory!!. Which is the same military prosecution that killed, abducted and tortured hundreds of thousands of Syrians in prisons and security branches, and the leaked photos of “Caesar” are just the tip of the iceberg of what those militias do in their basements and prisons.
In a scene of black comedy, he summarizes the surreal situation that the Syrian war has reached, but as the saying goes, if you are not ashamed, do whatever you want.
So what are these calls from the military prosecution of the regime but an Iranian attempt to mix the cards east of the Euphrates, Iran and its militias are striving to control the region, because they know that east of the Euphrates is the only region that poses a real threat to its influence, especially after the liquidation of most of the opposition forces in the rest of the Syrian land and its exclusion and revival In a small geographic spot now, it is Idlib, and in order to link its areas of influence in Iraq with Syria and to find a balance of forces between it and the international coalition forces against ISIS, similar to the Iraqi model, the two countries. On the other hand, it is difficult for Iran to fully control this area as it did In most other Syrian regions, such as eastern Aleppo, Ghouta and various Syrian countryside, through a complete siege and periodic bombing, to push the population and military forces in these areas to surrender. The area of this area is four times the areas of Idlib and the south combined, it constitutes a third of the entire area of Syria.
But it is trying in other ways to control and dominate the east of the Euphrates after liquidating the opposition forces in the rest of the Syrian land through several methods, the most important of which are:
1 – Inflaming ethnic strife between Arabs and Kurds
Iran is trying to play on ethnic contradictions, and in this context, the advisor to the Iranian guide for international affairs, “Ali Akbar Velayati”, received in May 2018, a delegation that was said to represent the sheikhs of the Syrian clans, and stated its presence, saying that “the Syrian Kurdish clans are fighting the United States, and it will drive them north from the east of the Euphrates.” Eastern Syria. Tehran is confident that if the Americans do not make sense and leave Syria, the Kurds will expel them,” but after less than one month, Iran sponsored a conference of “Arab” Syrian clans in the “Dirhafer” region, in which the speeches were clear in incitement against the Kurds.
Where Iran is working to suggest to the Arab clans east of the Euphrates that they are oppressed, the Kurdish rule will remain, and that the United States is a sponsor of this, and that only Tehran is able to restore the hegemony of the Arabs to the east of the Euphrates. With the security and military apparatus of the militias sponsored by Iran, led by the tribal leader Nawaf Ragheb al-Bashir, who established clan factions in Deir ez-Zor province in the name of “Al-Baqir Brigade.” 2 – The people of eastern Euphrates doubt the coalition’s ability to protect them
Iran is casting doubt on the people of the east of the Euphrates, including Arabs and Kurds, in the coalition by broadcasting propaganda that the coalition may withdraw at any moment and leave them an easy morsel in the mouth of the criminal Syrian regime, in order to find the killings, arrests and displacement of the areas it re-controlled, or what Afrin has received from Turkey’s control over Kurdish lands, which may call for the Syrian Democratic Forces to accept understandings that are closer to an undeclared surrender.
3- Understanding with Turkey
Day after day it becomes clear that there is an undeclared agreement between Turkey, the Syrian regime and Iran, based on pushing Turkey to raise the ceiling of its threats to the Kurdish regions in
East of the Euphrates, to create a kind of intimidation for the Kurdish forces there, and push the United States to feel that its support for the Syrian Democratic Forces may create
A focus of intense tension in a very sensitive area, and returning chaos to it, which allows Iran to present an offer of the return of the Syrian regime and Iranian militias to rule this region as a compromise between the Turkish push that includes the return of the Islamic militias and the survival of the Syrian Radical Forces.
This is, in a nutshell, the Iranian criminal role on Syrian soil, which does not seem to be put to anend in the near future.
Prepared by: Managing Editor
Release by: Hala Mshawah