SNSC Secretary: Arms Supplies to Syrian Rebels Threatening Int’l Security

The countries supplying weapons to the terrorist groups in Syria are threatening the security of all the world states, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili warned.
“The decision of a number of countries to send weapons to the terrorists in Syria is an instance of threatening world security,” Jalili said in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour in Tehran on Sunday.

He warned of the harsh reaction of the international community to the dispatch of weapons to Syria, and said, “The regional countries will not allow certain western powers to use terrorism as a tool to target the security of the region.”

Mansour, for his part, described arms supply to the al-Qaeda and al-Nusrah terrorists in Syria as contradictory to the western states’ claims about supporting democracy in the country, and said, “Establishment of security in the region will be materialized merely through peaceful solutions and considering the people’s demand as the criteria.”

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of stirring unrests in Syria once again.

The US and its western and regional allies have long sought to topple Bashar al-Assad and his ruling system. Media reports said that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.

The US daily, Washington Post, reported in May 2012 that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups battling the President Bashar al-Assad’s government have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.

The newspaper, quoting opposition activists and US and foreign officials, reported that Obama administration officials emphasized the administration has expanded contacts with opposition military forces to provide the Persian Gulf nations with assessments of rebel credibility and command-and-control infrastructure.

Opposition activists who had earlier complained that the rebels were running out of ammunition said in May 2012 that the flow of weapons – most bought on the black market in neighboring countries or from elements of the Syrian military in the past – has significantly increased after a decision by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Persian Gulf states to provide millions of dollars in funding each month.