Shamkhani: Riyadh has already its Takfiri army in Syria
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia needs not speak about dispatching forces to Syria as all the Takfiri forces in Syria are Saudi Arabia’s ground boots, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Shamkhani said on Tuesday.
These days a whole gamut of elements that boost terrorist groups is being generously offered to them by Western countries and their regional allies, Shamkhani said, according to Tehran Times.
“Dispatching official forces to Syria now will not help them rise from the morass they are bogged down in,” the top security official said.
Shamkahni stressed that Wahhabism is the main wellspring of Takfiri terrorism which is threatening all Islamic countries.
Saudi Arabia has expressed readiness to contribute Special Forces to a U.S.-led coalition that is purportedly hitting Daesh in Syria. Bahrain and the UAE have also hinted at similar deployments.
‘Saudi troops in Syria very dangerous’
“Although claims made by these countries are by no means proportionate to their military capabilities, the potential presence of ground boots without the legitimate consent or request of the Syrian government amounts to an interventionist and highly dangerous decision with unfathomable security repercussions for all the regional countries as well as European ones,” Shamkhani noted at a meeting with visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday evening.
Any military incursion would be “a step backward which puts paid to all the efforts undertaken so far to resolve the [Syrian] crisis,” he added.
“There is no military solution to Syria’s crisis; and the establishment of calm and stability in this country is possible only through inter-Syrian dialogs as a means of realizing the Syrian people’s will and demands,” the Iranian official said.
Addressing the Greek premier, the Iranian official said, “Greece has been on the forefront of… the issue of Syrian and Iraqi refugees… and clearly feels the several security and economic problems resulting from it.”
Tsipras, for his part, asserted that Athens was leading an “independent policy” vis-à-vis the Syrian issue.
M.Wassouf