Culture Minister, Iraqi Intellectuals Discuss Initiative to Establish Anti-American-Zionist Scheme Association in Damascus

Damascus- A number of Iraqi intellectuals recently visited Syria to voice solidarity with the country in the face of any possible Western aggression. The guest delegation met Culture Minister Lubana Mushaweh and discussed with her an initiative to establish an Anti-American-Zionist Scheme Association in Damascus. The initiative aims to support just Arab causes and defend Syria against the Zionist-American scheme.

Dr. Mushaweh said “when the Iraqi intellectuals defend Syria they defend themselves,” stressing that real intellectuals don’t follow the dictates of anyone and they don’t bargain on their countries or accept foreign aggression against their homelands.

She added that Syria withstood the crisis thanks to the Syrian people’s adherence to national unity and to the morals and values they were brought up on. She urged those who were misled by false democracy calls to realize that all what happened in the Arab homeland had nothing to do with democracy or freedom.

For his part, leader of the Iraqi delegation, Abdul Zahra Ali al-Sa’edi, Head of Constitutional Committee of the Iraqi (Confrontation) Strategic Studies Center, said the Iraqi intellectuals decided to visit Syria at an initiative to defend the Arab nation’s just causes with the Syrian issue at the top.

“The Iraqis have paid the bill of the American invasion of Iraq through division, sectarianism and incessant terrorism,” al-Sa’edi said, stressing that the American aggression against Syria never serve the interest of the Syrian people by any means.

“It is part of the American-Zionist conspiracy against the Arab countries and it only serves Israel,” he added.

Members of the delegation affirmed that it is the duty of each Arab intellectual to defend Syria as it is the source of Arab nationalist thinking and the fortress which confronts the Zionist occupation.

They asserted that Syria is still the “main defender of the Palestinian cause” which the West is trying to undermine through its calls for false freedom and through the so-called “Arab spring”.

The Iraqi intellectuals hailed the victories of the Syrian Arab Army in its battle against terrorism and expressed their pleasure to seeing Damascus a life-loving city despite the crisis.

H. Mustafa