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    America preparing military intervention in Syria’

    America preparing military intervention in Syria’

    Published: 05 January, 2012, 03:46

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    Anti-regime Syrians protesting in the village of Kfarrouma on January 3, 2012 (AFP Photo / Yotube)
    Damascus is criticizing the US for sending an envoy to Cairo's Arab League discussions about ending the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. London-based political analyst Chris Bambery says the US is preparing for a military intervention in Syria.

    ­According to Barbery, sanctions against Syria are only the beginning of Western intervention. "The key ally in this enterprise, Turkey, has been involved with the Free Syrian Army – training them, and we know there are also American advisers in those camps in Turkey," he says. And, "when you combine all that – sanctions, diplomatic moves, the involvement with the Free Syrian Army, it begins to create a dynamic that though perhaps the Americans don’t want involvement in the military operation in Syria, they can pull it in that direction.”
    Syria’s Foreign Ministry says the US is getting involved in affairs that are none of its business. And now, Damascus has pulled heavy weapons and tanks from cities after pressure from the Arab League, which says that security forces continue to kill civilian protestors regardless.

    “The United States is one of the parties seeking to rekindle violence by its mobilization and incitement,” said a representative of the Syrian Foreign Ministry.

    American statements on the situation "are a gross interference in the work of the Arab League, and an unjustified attempt to internationalize the issue of Syria,” he said.

    Jeffrey Feltman, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, was to travel to Cairo for consultations with the Arab League about Syria, according to a Tuesday statement from the US State Department. For its part, the White House has said the Arab League's conditions for the regime have not been honored.

    A team of Arab League observers has been in Syria since December 26 trying to assess the regime’s implementation of a peace agreement, signed by both sides, which would help end violence in the country.

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    ‘Iran opposes US hegemony’

    Published: 02 January, 2012, 21:54

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    An Iranian long-range shore-to-sea missile called Qader (Capable) is launched during the Velayat-90 war game on the Sea of Oman's shore near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran January 2, 2012 (Reuters / Jamejamonline / Ebrahim Norouzi)
    The US has slapped sanctions on Iran, targeting its financial sector while the EU is considering an embargo on Iranian oil. But if the West suffocates Iran, it will have no option but to respond in a severe manner, Dr Seyed Mohammad Marandi told RT.

    ­“The problem is that the US is pushing this conflict, this confrontation, in a direction which is becoming dangerous,” said Marandi of the University of Tehran. “In the eyes of many Iranians the Americans really do not want the nuclear issue to be resolved. They simply do not recognize Iran as an independent state, because Iran opposes American hegemony.”

    “The maneuvers in the Persian Gulf are basically to show the United States that Iran is strong and can protect itself,” Marandi added. “And it is basically the only way in which to force the United States to recognize that certain lines just should not be crossed.”

    With the naval drills Iran has proved it has enough resources to carry out its threat and close the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil export route linking the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean, he believes.

    “The Iranians are far stronger than the Americans would like to admit,” Marandi said. “Just recently they brought down and captured the most sophisticated drone in the US military, the Iranians have blinded CIA’s satellite.”

    A meeting of EU foreign ministers at the end of January will decide whether to implement an embargo on Iranian oil imports to punish Tehran for its controversial nuclear work. But what the West is basically trying to do is to “prevent ordinary Iranians from living like ordinary human beings,” Marandi believes.

    “It is really the Americans that are being provocative,” Marandi said. “They want people in Iran to suffer. That’s what they did in Gaza, and that’s what they are doing in Syria too, that is what sanctions in Syria are all about.”

    But despite all attempts to hurt the Iranians, the country’s economy is actually growing, according to Marandi.

    “If you look at recent IMF reports, the Iranian economy is growing faster than European economies and the American economy,” Marandi said. “So far the sanctions have not had the effect that the Americans wanted them to.”

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