Speaking on state tv, Ayatollah Khamenei claimed there was “proof” of the 2 nations’ involvement.
ADVERTISEMENTIran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, claimed on Wednesday that the collapse of the Syrian authorities was the results of a coordinated effort by the US and Israel.
“There ought to be little question that what has occurred in Syria is the results of a joint American and Zionist plan,” Khamenei mentioned on state TV. “We have proof, and this proof leaves no room for doubt.”
He additionally alleged involvement by a neighbouring nation, however didn’t specify which he was speaking about.
“A neighbouring state of Syria has performed a transparent position on this matter, and it continues to take action. Everyone can see this.”
The speedy fall of Bashar al-Assad’s authorities got here after a shock insurgent offensive that swept throughout Syria beginning in late November.
Opposition forces quickly captured a sequence of main cities, together with Aleppo, Hama, Homs, and ultimately the capital, Damascus, assembly little resistance because the Syrian military disintegrated.
On 8 December, Syrian state tv broadcast a video assertion by a bunch of males asserting that al-Assad had been overthrown and all prisoners launched.
Russian officers and Iranian state media confirmed that al-Assad had left Syria, and Russian information companies reported shortly afterward that he and his household had arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum.
Over a decade of battle
Syria’s 13-year battle started in 2011 when anti-government protests had been brutally suppressed.
The civil conflict that adopted claimed practically half one million lives and displaced half of Syria’s prewar inhabitants of 23 million.
Backed by allies Iran and Russia, al-Assad step by step regained management of a lot of the nation, leaving opposition teams confined to the northwest.
However, in late November, opposition forces led by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a large-scale offensive.
With the regime’s conventional allies embroiled in different conflicts — specifically Russia’s conflict in Ukraine and ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran — al-Assad obtained little assist to shore up his energy.
Syria’s prime minister, Mohammed Ghazi Jalali, has introduced the brand new authorities’s is able to “lengthen its hand” to an opposition-led administration.
