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The Military Intervention of the Islamic Republic of Iran in
Middle Eastern Countries is Against the National Interests of Iran
There have been many reports coming from Syria that the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has been increasing its military role in that country until a report that the regime has reduced the number of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps personnel from around 8,000 to about 700. Although the regime claims that the IRGC’s personnel are mere advisers, the facts illustrate the opposit.
The Qods
Force, the foreign force branch of the IRGC, under the leadership of
Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, has been organizing many forces including
irregular Shia militia and Afghan Shias in a paramilitary force called
“Fatemiyn Corps” and sending them to Syria. At least 50 members of the
Qods Force have been reported killed in Syria in the past few months. In
news outlets in Iran, those dead are referred to as “the martyrs of
defense of the Shrine [of Zeinab]”, and when a newspaper used the term
“killed” instead of “martyred” for a Qods Force general, the paper was
closed and the editor was sent to the court. There are also reports that
those IRGC personnel who have refused to go to Syria or have asked for
retirement have been court marshalled.
Assad’s
dictatorship has led to about 250,000 dead, one million injured, and
millions of refugees. The anti-Sunni discriminatory chauvinist policies
of Assad, like similar policies by the Nouri al-Maliki government in
Iraq, have caused large segments of the Sunni community to embrace Sunni
fundamentalist groups.
Due to the
fact that the IRGC is regarded as a foreign Shia occupying force by many
in Syria, the presence of the IRGC is not only not a solution, but is
part of the problem, and their continued presence only prolongs and
increases bloodshed and violence. The lives and treasure of Iran are
being wasted in a war that has no positive connection to Iran’s national
interests and are pursued in ideological adventurism of the
fundamentalist regime ruling Iran in order to preserve its illegitimate
regime.
The ruling
Shia fundamentalist regime by such policies has placed itself against
the large majority of the population in the region who are Sunni
Moslems. We can observe that despite providing huge support to many
dictatorial regimes and extremist fundamentalist groups, many of them
oppose many policies and interests of Iran. For example, the Assad
regime opposes Iran’s ownership of the three islands in the Persian
Gulf, and as Iran’s financial aid was decreased Hamas has sided with
Saudi Arabia taking its financial aid.
The Iran
National Front-Abroad opposes the Islamic Republic’s military
interventions in Iraq, Syria, and other countries in the Middle East. As
we have stated in the past, such policies by the fundamentalist regime
ruling Iran drag our people to unnecessary wars and are against the
interests of the Iranian people.
The
Islamic Republic’s military interventions in the countries of the Middle
East, under the banner of defense of the power of Shia religion, have
increased sectarian tensions and will cause the targeting of Iran for
retaliation by extremist Sunni fundamentalist groups. The deaths of
Iranian people for adventurisms of the Shia fundamentalist dictatorial
regime should not be tolerated.
In our
opinion, the Iranian people and all the freedom-loving peoples of the
region, who struggle for peace, friendship, democracy, and against the
forces of destruction, share similar interests and should act in
solidarity. The continuation of such wars which help fundamentalist
groups (Shia and Sunni) and dictatorial regimes, harm all the peoples of
the region.
Victory to
the pro-democracy forces of the Middle East in the struggle to liberate
themselves from the clutches of dictatorial regimes and fundamentalist
forces, which is the pre-condition for the achievement of freedom,
prosperity and ending the presence of global powers in the region.
Iran National Front Organizations-Abroad
December 19, 2015
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