West seeks to spread war as Syrian army advances: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Gearoid O Colmain, a political analyst in Paris, about Iran warning that any move by foreign countries without the Syrian government’s approval will only further complicate the crisis in the Arab country.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: So here you have Iran making its stance very clear, at the same time we are looking at this guessing game and Iran has condemned any interventions and I am referring to the possibility of Saudi Arabia sending in ground troops, already they have their fighter jets in Incirlik and reports of that they have sent some of their fighters there too. Are we looking at a scenario that Medvedev said yesterday or a couple days back that perhaps this could turn into World War if the sides are not careful?

Colmain: Well the West has certainly been pushing World War since the very start. The very destabilization of Syria was instigated and planned by NATO in coordination with the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council and Saudi Arabia is a key actor there.

Saudi Arabia of course is up to its neck in conflict in Yemen. They have been bombing Yemen, they have been … for over a year now and that has caused many, many deaths. And Saudi Arabia itself is a state that is unstable and if it pushed things too far, that could backfire on Saudi Arabia. It is of course a farce to suggest that the Western military alliance and their [Persian] Gulf states allies are fighting ISIS (Daesh) when they have been caught in flagrante delicto on numerous occasions supplying those very terrorists they claim to be fighting with weapons and helping them across the border from Turkey into Syria where they have committed atrocities and crimes against humanity and genocide since the start of this NATO instigated war.

So if the Saudis decide now to send troops into Syria, it will of course escalate. We are seeing the Islamic State (Daesh) starting to spread out as the Syrian troops surround Aleppo. They do look like they are going to take Aleppo with Russian support now but we see as that is happening, the Islamic State is moving into Dagestan, it is moving into the North Caucasus region and we predicted that this will happen, that as soon as parts of Syria were liberated, they would be redeployed to other war theaters and other war theaters would be opened up and that is probably what would happen.

If that did happen, then we would see an escalation of the wars into North Caucasus and Central Asia. China of course has been also battling these terrorists. The weaker terrorists have been in Syria. That has been a major source of conflict between China and Turkey as well. So yes, it is becoming more and more global and I think that the danger right now is that the Daesh Takfiri terrorists will be redeployed by Western intelligence agencies to other theaters and that would be a major difficulty for the Russians because they would then be faced with a lot of different fronts to face and I think it would be a problem for Iran as well of course because the war would come closer to them.

But I think right now what is clear in Syria is that the Syrian Arab army are winning this war, they are surrounding Aleppo, they do look like they are going to take it eventually and if they do I think that would really …, it would be very, very difficult for the Western coalition to stop this momentum, this huge momentum of course in Syria. We should not forget that this war started and planned by the West has now murdered over 470,000 people; half of the population has been reduced to refugees, most of those refugees are in Syria under the protection of Syrian government and neighboring countries.

So yes, we are seeing I think the escalation of this but I do not think if we have a World War that it will be something like a major nuclear conflict because I do not think that that is the way the Western powers want to play this. They want to spread the Syrian war into neighboring countries particularly in North Caucasus, the Russia Federation and into Central Asia and possibly Iran. So I think that they will try to push the war out further as the Syrian army advances.   

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