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Election campaign: #Vote_for_Qassem_Soleimani president of Syria!
The elections are a masquerade, of course. Not only because the ostensible rivals are not real rivals, but also
because only about half of the eligible voters could theoretically cast their vote. The other half of Syrians are either refugees in neighboring countries, incarcerated in prisons, or live in areas held by the rebels.
Moreover, al-Assad himself is a mere puppet of the Iranian regime. Sepah Qods, a division of Sepah Pasdaran (the Iranian Revolutionary Guards) responsible for operations outside Iran, commands the Syrian army troops and paramilitary groups like the National Defence Forces. Sepah Qods also funds and controls the thousands of Hezbollah Lebanon gunmen and Iraqi militias fighting in Syria.
The real ruler of Syria today is the chief of Sepah Qods, Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Thus, we at Naame Shaam think that Gen. Soleimani should step out of the shadow and also stand for the elections. We all know he is camera-shy. So, to get round this problem, Naame Shaam has decided to run an election campaign on his behalf. Yes, an election campaign!
Why?
In early May 2014, Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamedani, who oversees Sepah Qods’ operations in Syria, bluntlyadmitted that al-Assad was in fact “fighting this war [in Syria] as our deputy.”
“Our” here obviously refers to the Iranian regime and Sepah Qods.
Hamedani’s statement was only an official admission of a reality familiar to many in Syria:
- Iranian and Hezbollah officials have stated that Bashar al-Assad’s regime would not survive long without the massive military and economic support from the Iranian regime.
- Sepah Pasdaran commanders have boasted about being in charge of all major military operations in Syria.
- All big battles in Syria are now being fought by Sepah Pasdaran and Hezbollah Lebanon, rather than the Assad forces. Many checkpoints in Damascus and elsewhere are manned by Iraqi militias.
- It is estimated that billions of Iranian Tomans are being spent every month to keep al-Assad in power. The Iranian regime has been financing a big part of the economy in regime-controlled areas, pumping billions of dollars into the Syrian Central Bank so that the regime can pay salaries and import food and other goods for its supporters.
- The Iranian regime has also been paying all the bills for the Russian arms shipped to al-Assad’s forces, as well as funding all the military operations of Sepah Pasdaran, Hezbollah and the Iraqi militias fighting in Syria.
Now, in a ‘real democracy’, such as that in Syria and Iran, an elected government should reflect the balance of power on the ground. The only logical conclusion, therefore, is that Gen. Qassem Soleimani should be the president of Syria, and Bashar al-Assad his deputy – if Gen. Soleimani sees him fit for this post, of course.
Who is Qassem Soleimani?
Born in 1957, Major General Qassem Soleimani grew up in the southeastern province of Kerman, Iran. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he joined Sepah Pasdaran (the Iranian Revolutionary Guards). A few years later, he joined Sepah Qods, a division of Sepah Pasdaran that conducts special operations abroad in order to “export the Islamic revolution”. He was later promoted to major general by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The relationship between the two is said to be “very close”.
Here are some highlights from Gen. Soleimani’s eventful military career:
- Early in his career as a guard in his 20′s, he was stationed in northwestern Iran and helped crush a Kurdish uprising. He later actively took part the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq (1980-1988).
- He spent his early years at Sepah Qods combating Central Asian drugs smugglers and the Taliban in Afghanistan – which provided him with a considerable experience in the inner workings of international trafficking and terrorism.
- He was reportedly one of the principal architects and brains behind restructuring of Hezbollah Lebanon in 1990s.
- He is said to have been the mastermind behind a bomb plot aimed at killing the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US in Washington D.C., which later led the US and some EU countries to include him in their sanctions regime.
- Between 2004 and 2011, he was in charge of overseeing Sepah Qods’ efforts to arm and train Shiite militias in Iraq.
- This provided him with a rich experience, which he skillfully applied in Syria after the start of the revolution there in March 2011. He is responsible for arming, training and directing Bashar al- Assad’s forces, as well as Hezbollah fighters and the Iraqi militias fighting in Syria.
Gen. Soleimani has been described as “the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today” and the principal military strategist and tactician in Iran’s effort to combat its numerous enemies. His leadership of Sepah Qods gives him a unique portfolio: intelligence operative, diplomat, strategist, battlefield commander and planner of ruthless attacks against civilians. There is hardly anyone in the world more suitable to be the president of Syria.
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