US policy in Syria, shell game: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Bennett, a former US army psychological warfare officer, to discuss the remarks made by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, renewing Tehran’s call for political solution to the crisis in Syria and rejecting a military approach.

Reiterating Iran’s support for the Syrian government in its fight against Takfiri terrorists, Zarif in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think tank, on Friday highlighted the need for delineating the positions of terrorist groups like Daesh and Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch formerly known as al-Nusra Front, which have been excluded from the ceasefires across Syria.

The Iranian foreign minister also criticized some regional players for focusing on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fate rather than the future of Syria. He added that unlike Saudi Arabia, Tehran has always been ready to cooperate with all regional players on the Syrian crisis, and it does not believe in a solution based on "exclusions".

Bennett said the US policy in Syria is “shell game”, adding that the ultimate goal is US hegemony and the objective is to weaken the competing nations so that they can be resurrected as “subservient colonies”.

“They [the Americans] have tried to do that with Ukraine, they tried to do that with Libya and the strategy to make them fall is ethnic division and religious division and they employ that strategy with a tactic of delivering non-government organizations like George Soros and Red Cross and other groups,” he stated.

“They go into these nations with the George Soros type groups and economically wage war by paying people to launch parades, protestations and all sort of divisions,” the analyst added.

Bennett also mentioned that the US is trying to “delude” the Syrians, the Russians and the Iranians to stay at the negotiating table and have a diplomatic solution but it only seeks to establish a  “no-fly zone” over Syria.   

He went on to say that Washington is not “compromising” and the only solution is to have an “internal political dialogue” that ostracizes the United States.

“The United States is not flexible at all. They have been trying to conquer Syria and now the coalition of the Russian, the Iranian, the Chinese are coming in saying we will be flexible, we will compromise but there will not be an overthrow of Assad, there will not be a Salafi Wahhabist chaos regime in Syria that the US can parasitically resurrect as a colony. That is off the table because then it is going to spread to Russia, the Caucasus and Europe,” he said.   

The analyst further noted the United Nations should immediately demand for the “expulsion” of all US forces which are already illegally invading Syria.

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