Syria’s Transitional Prime Minister, Hinting at Definitive Break With Iran, Calls for Refugees To Return to Their Homeland

Mohammed al-Bashir appeals for stability while Iran’s ‘supreme leader,’ Ali Khamenei, blames ‘Americans and Zionists’ as well as Turkey for Assad’s fall.

AP/Khalil Hamra
An elderly Syrian woman sits over sacks of clothes as she waits to cross into Syria from Turkey, at the Oncupinar border gate, near the town of Kilis, southern Turkey, December 11, 2024. AP/Khalil Hamra

The blame game in Syria has begun. In comments reported on the Iranian regime’s official news agency, IRNA, Iran’s so-called “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said “there should be no doubt that what happened in Syria is the product of a joint American and Zionist plan.” In a pointed reference to Turkey, he added that “a neighboring government of Syria plays, has played, and is playing an obvious role in this regard.”

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