Iran’s Top Commander: Qatari Emir First Victim of Export of Terrorism to Syria

Iran’s top commander Major General Hassan Firouzabadi called Qatar’s dethroned Emir as the first victim of support for terrorism in Syria, and called on other Arab leaders to take a lesson from the fate of their Qatari counterpart.
“We caution them (the Arab leaders) to take a lesson from the fate of the dethroned Qatari Emir who came to be the first victim of investment in al-Qaeda and animosity towards the Muslim world,” Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Sunday.

“They shouldn’t think that cooperation with the US and the Zionists and supporting bloodshed will stabilize their position,” he said.

Qatar’s Emir Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani handed power on Tuesday to his son, Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim.

Firouzabadi said that the fate of the former Qatari Emir is the same as the fate of his colleagues in the so-called ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Qatar.

Qatar, along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have been widely viewed as the West’s main Middle East allies in fomenting violence in Syria and financing the terrorists fighting against the President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

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

Thousands of people have been killed since terrorist and armed groups turned protest rallies into armed clashes.

The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

In October 2011, calm was almost restored in most parts of the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies brought the country into chaos through every possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.