Major General Safavi:

The "Syria" war transformed Hezbollah from a "guerrilla organization" into a powerful "army"

Assistant Secretary-General of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief said Hezbollah was a guerrilla organization and a movement that became a powerful army against the Zionists with this Syrian war.

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Date: 27 February 2018 - 15:30

Accordin to Defensive and security  deparment of Defapress: Major General Sayed Yahya Safavi, a senior assistant and supreme commandant of the Supreme Allied Command, at the "Review of the Syrian crisis, the latest growths in the field and politics" held at the Institute for Future Studies of the Islamic World, said the West Zone Asia is in a geopolitical transition.

Our area in West Asia will compete with major powers such as the United States, Russia and the European Union, and in my certainty, in the near future, China and India will also be present in this area, they will compete with the United States and will compete with China and India. In Pakistan, Afghanistan, even Iran, and Central Asia, I see a lot of thoughtful things.

He described Syria and Iraq as the place for the geo-strategic rivals of the United States and Russia, saying that you know that Iraq and Syria were under the influence of the Soviet Union and Russia. Iraq became independent in 1932, and the kingdom was leading. In 1958, General Abdul Karim Qassem's coup changed the kingdom into a republic. Hasan al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein also made a coup in 1968. The structure of the Iraqi and Syrian armies is Russian. All gear is from tanks T-54, T-62, T-72 to airplanes and navy of both Russian countries. Iran was dominated by the Americans before the revolution.

Safavi added: Americans have been adopting Nixon's two-column strategy, Iran as an aerial power and security for the Gulf area and Saudi Arabia as monetary power, since 1971, when Britain left the Gulf. The Americans occupied Iraq in 2003 and dragged it out of the hands of the Russians. Only a country called Syria remained. Syria and Iraq are also geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic rivals of areal powers such as Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. We have two competitors in these countries: a worldwide struggle and a native rivalry.

He also described the division of Syria and Iraq between the aims of the Americans if it could, and undermined the power of Iran's result in Iraq and Syria, and the lack of a tactical link among Iran-Iraq-Syria-the Mediterranean. As a tactical association, he mentioned other aims of the Americans in the area, adding that preventing the superiority of Iran's geopolitical and geostrategic weight should be seen as a aim of the United States in the area.

The Safavi noted: The fact is that Iran's burden in the area has been upgraded. The association of Iran, Russia, and Lebanon's Hazbullah won in Syria and the Association of Americans-Turks-Jordan-Zionists in Iraq ineffective after 83 months. Of course, Turkey was portion of this grouping by 2016; it has left the association since 2016.

Pointing to the geostrategic aims of the United States in the area, the chairman of the Organization for Innovative Studies of the Islamic World pointed out: in my view, authority of the territories under the effect of the former Soviet Union and current Russia, the protection of the Zionist regime's survival and security, the weakening of the resistance-oriented states in particular of Syria and the weakening Lebanon's Hezbollah's strength and grounding to deal with it. Of the geostrategic aims of the United States in this area.

He said Iran and Russia did not allow the Syrian government to fail. That is what Americans, Saudis, Zionists, and even Jordanians wanted. So it seizures out that this association has won. Therefore, Iran's geopolitical weight rose to Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Iran's influence in Iraq has risen. ISILs came close to Baghdad, but Iran did not let Iraq, nor Syria, collapse.

Assistant and Supreme Leader of the Supreme Leader, pointing to the requirements for rebuilding the strain, said: "I think that Syria has a long way to rebuild." Reconstruction will take several years and will require at least 300 to 400 billion dollars. In the north and east of Euphrates, in the same part where the Americans and the Turks came, they could form a Kurdish autonomous state, such as they required to form and fail in Iraq. Dr. Khameh yar referred to the Sykes-Pico 1916 Treaty. In the agreement, the formation of an independent Kurdish and Armenian state has come to fruition.

He added that the Kurds have a population of about 30 million, 17-17 million of them in Turkey, 6 to 7 million in Iraq, later in Iran and Syria. If a Kurdish government wants to take shape, the four governments of Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq are opposed. The Kurdish state will not be formed unless they reach the Mediterranean. The Turks came to Afrien, who formed a self-governing state in eastern Euphrates, not having a Mediterranean way. The Turks are tremendously worried about their Kurdish areas, apart from other aims and interests in relation to Aleppo and Sochi talks. Of course, the development of Iran's radical and economic ties with Turkey can have an impact on local issues, with Iran and Turkey having a capacity of $ 30 billion in economic exchanges.

"We are extremely calling for the individuality and territorial honesty of Syria," said the Supreme Leader of the Supreme Command, referring to the need to maintain the independence and territorial integrity of Syria. The Islamic Republic of Iran must also bring back the costs that have been incurred in Syria, and the Syrians are ready to turn the Syrian phosphate oil, gas and mines back. My impression is that it is true that we are spending, but Iran and Russia are winning the scene; the Russians signed a 49-year contract with Syria, both a military base and an economic and political concession. I think that Iran can also have a long-term political and economic deal with the Syrian government, and it has reimbursed its costs, and now Iran is exporting Syria's phosphate mines.

Safavi stated that Lebanon's Hezbollah was a guerrilla organization and a movement that, with this Syrian war, turned into a powerful army with the Lebanese army against the Zionists and to defend the people and land of Lebanon, and it is true that the Syrian war was 83 months long He has been pulled out and some have been martyred, but Hezbollah has develop an army with Zionist servants. The pre-war guard of the 8-year-old war was not a military organization, but as a war, we became an influential army. Now Hezbollah is also a powerful military arm of the Zionist regime. There is now a united Islamic army in Syria.

He wished in the end: "We hope that the Syrians and Iraqis will take their purpose and stance the sturdiest resistance to the Zionist regime and the United States."

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