An Iranian lawmaker says the Syrian opposition members have become engaged in a “power struggle,” which will be the key to their undoing.
“There are many personal and political disagreements among various Syrian opposition groups to assume key positions and the leadership,” Seyyed Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini said on Friday.
The spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee added that the opposition in Syria has failed to establish a transitional government in the country due to internal disputes among its members.
Naqavi-Hosseini noted that there are two major reasons behind the failure of the militants and opposition groups in Syria.
“The first cause for the militants’ failure is that [they are] a tool in the hands of Western and Arab powers; therefore, they do not have any popularity and legitimacy among the Syrian nation.”
He cited the militants’ use of weapons, assassination and bombing for resolving the crisis in the Arab state as another reason for their failure.
“This is while the Syrian people seek to make decisions for the future of their country by holding elections in a peaceful and democratic climate,” Naqavi-Hosseini added.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.
The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and that a very large number of the militants operating in the country are foreign nationals.
