[Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News] Survey of Iranian media rhetoric today

PressTV:

The chief of staff of Iran's Armed Forces has emphasized that a potential military attack against Syria by the US and its allies will have a ruinous impact on the Israeli regime.

"Any military measure against Syria will draw the Zionists deep in the fire [as well]," said Major General Hassan Firouzabadi in an address on the recent American military threats against the Syrian nation and government on Thursday.

Further elaborating on the ramifications of a potential new military move in the region, the top military commander said, "This will be a huge damage to the human community and its effects will not be merely limited to the Muslim community."

He stated, "The US, Britain and the rest of their allies will suffer greatly by deploying their military forces to the region and Syria."

FARS News Farsi says that a group of Iranian youths are volunteering to go to Syria to wage jihad against the Zionist regime.

PressTV:

President Assad made the remarks on Thursday while receiving a delegation of Yemeni politicians in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria's state television said.

"Syria will defend itself in the face of any aggression, and threats will only increase its commitment to its principles and its independence," Assad said.

The Syrian president also noted that Syria is determined to crush the Israeli-backed terrorists operating against his government.

"Syria, with its resistant people and valiant army, is determined to wipe out terrorism which is being backed by Israel and Western nations to serve their own purposes of sowing division in the region, fragmenting its people and forcing them into submission," he added.

Also PressTV:

Iran says Tehran, Moscow and Beijing have been assured by the Syrian government that it has not used chemical weapons in the fight against Takfiri groups in the Arab country.

On Thursday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the reassurance by the Syrian government has been relayed to the UN Under-Secretary-General Jeffery D. Feltman, who was recently on a visit to Iran.

Amir-Abdollahian further said Feltman was also told that the Islamic Republic, itself a "victim of chemical weapons," is opposed to the use of such weapons in any way.

The Iranian diplomat further described a potential military intervention in Syria as a "strategic mistake, which would not be limited in dimensions if it occurred."

IRNA:

Addressing his first meeting with members of the 11th government, Ayatollah Khamenei said the US threat of intervention in Syria would be a real catastrophe for the region.

Any intervention and war mongering will definitely be detrimental to the war mongers.

Also IRNA:

Addressing his weekly cabinet meeting, Rohani called recent regional developments worrying, and warned, Any adventurism in the Middle East would endanger regional and global stability.

He said people of the world, especially in the region, are not ready for a new war and warned that any adventurism in the region would only result in promotion of extremism and terrorism.

And this from the "moderate" foreign minister:

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States will fall into a trap laid in Syria by the Zionists if Washington launches a military strike on the Arab country.

"The Syria crisis is a trap set by Zionist pressure groups for this country (the United States)," said Zarif in a Tuesday TV interview.

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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 8/29/2013 02:45:00 PM