Syrians want Assad to remain in power: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Dean Henderson, an author and political expert based in Memphis, and Richard Millet, a journalist and political commentator in London, to discuss ongoing peace efforts to end the conflict in Syria, particularly those undertaken by the UN Security Council (UNSC).

Henederson says that the UN Security Council is always divided over these matters and we can only hope that the forces who prevail at the end are serious about ending terrorism against Syrian people.

He goes on to say that as long as the will of the Syrian people is respected and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government remains in power, the peace efforts are welcomed.

“It is just bizarre that part of the world’s narrative is that a democratically elected president has to be removed because there are terrorists who have wrecked his country and are now opposing and fighting against him, killing the Syrian people,” he argues.

According to Henderson, the ISIL and all other rebel groups in Syria such as the al-Nusra Front, are essentially “the same people,” a group of CIA-backed terrorists.

The analyst maintains that it is not for foreigners to decide on Syria’s government and Assad’s presidency because Syria, unlike US allies such as Saudi Arabia, is a democratic country.

“It is funny how always the oppressor, the aggressor and the bully is always blaming the victim,” he adds.

He says even President Obama would not have stepped down if terrorists invaded his country and wreaked havoc there.

Millet, for his part, says that the conflict has split Syria into three parts now namely Assad and his supporters, the opposition and then the Takfiri Daesh terrorists. He accuses Assad of killing Syrian people and says that Israel is “the only true democracy” in the Middle East.

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