‘Regime Change Policy Won’t Work in Syria’: Indian Researcher
NEW DELHI, (ST)- Dr. Rajan Kumar, Indian researcher in Jawaharlal Nehru University has stressed that some western countries, mainly America, have strong ties with terrorist organizations in Syria including “al-Qaeda”, “Deash” and other terrorist extremist groups backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.
In an interview with the Lok Sabha TV, the Indian Parliament Channel, Kumar said that the Syrian state is facing a proxy war with foreign-backed terrorists as a tool, noting that the Syrian people are suffering a deteriorating humanitarian situation because by this war.
“The policy of regime change by force has failed and it won’t work in Syria,” Kumar said, pointing out that the United States escalates in Syria to provoke confrontation with Russia.
He described Washington’s policy since the invasion of Iraq as “lying”.
On his part, Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui, a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs, said that regional countries and parties have been part in the war on Syria which resulted in a conflict between the United States and Russia.
Siddiqui described the American interference in the region’s affairs over the past 60 years as “disastrous”.
He pointed out that since September 11, 2001 events, “the United States has been interfering in the region and changing regimes by force. The US stances towards the Middle East won’t change because the American policy aims at dividing the region to serve the military, political and economic interests of Israel.”
Hamda Mustafa