Jumblat: If Only Iran Ambassador would Stop Making Statements on Syria Crisis
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Tuesday stressed that the “sweeping popular revolutions in several Arab countries, topped by Syria, do not need lecturing from anyone.”
“If only the Iranian ambassador (to Lebanon, Ghazanfar Roknabadi,) would disassociate himself from making statements about the Syrian crisis, he would perhaps help alleviate the Syrian people's suffering,” Jumblat said.
Asked about Roknabadi’s remarks questioning the presence of a revolution in Syria, the Druze leader answered: “If only he would visit (Homs’) Baba Amr, Khaldiyeh and other Syrian cities, he would see the massacres committed there with his own eyes.”
And as he noted that Iran had aided the “oppressed peoples” and resistance movements in Lebanon and Palestine against the Israeli occupation, Jumblat reminded Tehran that “the so-called Arab Spring is a native, internal movement that was launched by the conscience of the Arab peoples and their desire to get rid of dictatorship, oppression and tyranny.”
Source: Naharnet
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