Crisis in Syria deflecting public from Saudi, Bahrain suppression

Former Iranian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs has said that anti-Assad regimes in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are well-aware of a day when Islamic Awakening or Arab Spring breeze would embrace them as well.
Hussein Sheikh al-Eslami asserted that Saudi and Bahraini rulers fueled the Syrian crisis in order to deflect the public opinions from their suppression of public unrest.

He also provided comments on western reaction to Assad’s speech and said that western powers, and US and Israel want to dry out Syrian government and army capabilities in inside conflicts, which have been equipped to deal with Israel.

“The Arab countries and their Emirs want disintegration of Syria. They think that Arab Spring is not Arab mass demands for political participation, but a Shiite-Sunni rivalry revived,” he added.

Former Iranian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs asserted that Arabs are well-aware of a day when Islamic Awakening or Arab Spring breeze would embrace them as well; they want to deflect the public attention from revolutions in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and to depict Syrian crisis as Shiite-Sunni rivalry, and bring Syria toward disintegration.

He also said that some countries dreamed of revived Ottoman Empire, and since it was not geographically viable, they have launched attempts to realize it at least in political grounds.

“NATO is an agent for fueling ethnic violence in Iraq, Syria, etc., as well in line with this intention,” he believed. “Bashar al-Assad has presented the peaceful negotiations for terrorists and those warmongers in Doha to listen to his remarks,” he added.