Al-Intiqad, Exclusive: President al-Assad Delivers Important Speech Nearly Current Midmonth
As the current year almost ends and the next year approaches, the Syrian command is carrying out a general evaluation with respect to the Syrian actualities after nearly nine months of crisis have passed; whereby the crisis has involved an interior, armed sabotage movement supported by a foreign conspiracy: a Zionist-US plot that has used Arab ‘marionettes' camouflaged by "the Arab League".
Besides, the Syrian command's evaluation includes the level of the crisis, the points of strengths and weaknesses, and the points of gain and loss. In fact, the stormy conspiracy has reached its climax in the recent couple of months, whereby the US has thought that its hurriedness to make a certain achievement in Syria could have compensated for the humiliating withdrawal of Washington D.C. from Iraq. On the other hand, many frontlines of the Syrian regime have been quite steadfast.
Hereupon, visitors to the Syrian capital reveal to "al-Intiqad Website" that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad intends to address the Syrian people and the international and Arab public opinion; whereby al-Assad is to deliver an "important speech" in the next ten to fifteen days maximally. Al-Assad is to evaluate the Syrian situation and the stage the crisis has reached, in addition to the achievements made to confront the stormy conspiracy against Syria- al-Assad has informed his visitors, who expect that the speech to be made is going to be a turning point close to the speech of victory declaration.
Certainly, such expectation has been made upon several data provided to the visitors by al-Assad; whereby these data confirm that the Syrian regime has made a long run, enduring the storm and almost putting an end to it. Here below are the data exposed by the visitors to "al-Intiqad" in accordance with what the Syrian president reveals to them:
First: The Syrian command is relieved upon the big popular support to the Syrian regime, which has been manifested through the rallies of millions of people in different districts, especially after the latest sanctions imposed on Syria by "the Arab League". President al-Assad actually confirms to his visitors that he has been surprised to find this mass of popular support for the Syrian command and regime.
Second: None of the Syrian territories is out of the control of the legitimate forces and "the Syrian Arab Army" at all. Yet, remaining are some scattered insecure focuses where armed terrorist groups move. Therefore, the supreme command of the legitimate military forces has given clear instructions to its forces in regard to the terrorist groups; whereby the forces are dealing with them finely accurately by performing "operative military operations" that ultimately lessen the casualties among civilians, even when this practically requires endangering the lives of the legitimate security forces during the performance of their missions.
Third: "The Syrian Arab Army" has remained disciplined, supporting the regime and performing the missions of finishing the armed rebellions completely and successfully in all regions: Daraa, Tal Kalakh, Jisr ash-Shugur, Deir al-Zour, Edleb, Hama, Hamas, and others. Regarding this context, the supreme Syrian command iterates that the army command was actually willing to settle this issue fast in many regions while the armed groups held control of some cities and regions. Nevertheless, the supreme political command asked the army command several times to avoid hurriedness and accomplish the mission slowly in order to lessen bloodshed even if that delayed retaining control over the regions where rebellions were made.
Fourth: So far all attempts to incite sectarianism in Syria have failed; President al-Assad says that this plan failed in Iraq and will never succeed unless Syria witnesses incidents like division and sectarianism that the US seeks in Iraq and Syria at the same time. Al-Assad iterates that this plan, too, is going to fail.
Fifth: The Syrian command iterates it is going to sustain the reformation process that the regime commenced several months ago without getting affected by the campaigns of foreign provocation and conspiracy that aim at changing the Syrian nationalistic fundaments and that do not give the least care to achieving interior reformation.
Sixth: President al-Assad does not underestimate the danger of the economic crisis the Syrian people is suffering because of the sanctions imposed by "the Arab League" and some Western states. Nevertheless, al-Assad confirms the presence of a series of precautions allowing Syria to confront this economic crisis steadfastly.
Regional, International Data
Seventh: Although the Syrian command is certain about the mass of the smuggling of weapons from Lebanon to Syria by some forces of "the March-14 Alliance", this command is confident regarding the Lebanese situation in the presence of the current Lebanese government. As well, the command reiterates that Lebanon's stability is a subset of Syria's stability and, therefore, is related to it; also that the Lebanese situation is going to be disrupted in case the crisis in Syria worsens. Besides, these sources see that avoiding the disruption of the Lebanese situation is of the interest of both Syria and the West.
Eighth: According to what the visitors report upon al-Assad's statement, the main battle is with the US that is today withdrawing humiliatingly from Iraq after the US scheme to divide Iraq has failed. In 2004, Syria refused the conditions of the former US Secretary of State Colin Powell as the power of US in the Middle East Region reached its climax. Therefore, Syria is certainly not approving of the US conditions today as it sees the US forces withdrawing humiliatingly from Iraq.
Ninth: "The Arab League" is not worthy of the consideration of the Syrian command that has accepted its role only upon the Russian hopes. As well, the command sees that the Arab rulers are too weak to confront Syria and impose their conditions on it; thus, "we will allow them to apologize when they come to do so in the coming stage."
Tenth: President al-Assad sees that Russia's stance on the Syrian issue is strategic as it provides unlimited support to Syria. "Russia is on our side in the battle, and it considers that the battle is its. I don't believe that Russia might receive an offer that compensates for the current governance in Syria."
Hereupon, this series of interior, regional, and international data serves the Syrian regime, allowing it to remain steadfast and confident with respect to its multi-leveled situation. These data are to be demonstrated through the expected speech of the Syrian president nearly the current midmonth; whereby the expectations are that the speech will be important and will draw the features of a new stage entitled ‘Defeating US Conspiracy; Close Recovery from Syrian Crisis'.
Source: al-Intiqad, translated and edited by moqawama.org
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