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In the first days of the Syrian civil war, if the rightful demands of the Syrian people were realized, a democratic country in its simplest sense could have been established and Syria could have become a country governed by election like Tunisia, if not Egypt. Under any circumstances, the fate of the Syrian people would be better off. Both Iran and Turkey attributed such a great meaning to the Syrian issue that only if they could have foreseen the present situation, their attitudes in the face of the Syrian civil war would be different from their present positions.
Today, the following conviction gradually becomes predominant in the international arena: The only power that is capable of ending the war in Syria is again the United States. Four or five years ago, such a conviction could have been interpreted as catastrophic for Iran, but it might have been transformed into a tune that now probably sounds nice to some Iranians.
In the most critical period of the Syrian civil war when the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was seriously threatening the regime in Damascus, Hezbollah was involved in the war through Iran. Some observers argue that a tacit agreement of nonaggression was realized between Israel and Hezbollah before the latter became a side in the Syrian civil war. In a sense, Israel seems to confirm the fighting of Hezbollah against Muslims in Syria. More clearly, Israel finds Hezbollah's presence in Syria in its best interests.
What is much more complicated is that while Hezbollah fights against the FSA by moving from Lebanon to Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in another front of the country simultaneously makes war with the FSA, which has been fighting against the Baath regime. Thus, two antagonistic forces wage war against the opposition forces in the civil war only to save the Baath regime. As I will analyze the interaction between ISIS and Iran in my next column, the main theme of the present piece is over Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian civil war and the question of why Hezbollah is being wasted and its positive image destroyed?
Many years ago, I had the chance to have a conversation with both Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah. They talked about the city governance of Hezbollah, which was fighting against Israel in southern Lebanon, through democratically elected municipalities, their moderate and constructive attitude in the assembly, their assimilation of democratic culture together with Lebanon's multiculturalism and the uniting sensibility of their political culture toward the country.
Under the circumstances of that period, Hezbollah, together with its religious leader Fadlallah and its political leader Nasrallah, posed an ideal image of religious structure that interpreted religious maxims wholesomely, treated the rights of others with respect and thus wholly differed from the dictatorships in Muslim countries.
Hezbollah fighters, who succeeded in defeating Israel in skirmishes and were enshrined by all Muslims, now set foot in Syria to kill Muslims in order to serve the Shiite crescent theory of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, which will eventually slide the whole Islamic world into chaos. In fact, Khamenei's theory is found dangerous even by principal Iranian leaders such as the influential politician and the former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, President Hassan Rouhani and former prime minister and opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Perhaps Hezbollah could have been one of the subjects of the recent agreement between Iran and the U.S. through which the former could have ensured the nonaggression of the Hezbollah toward Israel and thus abused it in the Syrian civil war.
Therefore, Hezbollah, the apple of all Muslims' eyes, is sacrificed for Khamenei's political ambitions while another constructive image in the Islamic world is destroyed to the detriment of Muslims who have been on the losing side since World War I.
Today, the following conviction gradually becomes predominant in the international arena: The only power that is capable of ending the war in Syria is again the United States. Four or five years ago, such a conviction could have been interpreted as catastrophic for Iran, but it might have been transformed into a tune that now probably sounds nice to some Iranians.
In the most critical period of the Syrian civil war when the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was seriously threatening the regime in Damascus, Hezbollah was involved in the war through Iran. Some observers argue that a tacit agreement of nonaggression was realized between Israel and Hezbollah before the latter became a side in the Syrian civil war. In a sense, Israel seems to confirm the fighting of Hezbollah against Muslims in Syria. More clearly, Israel finds Hezbollah's presence in Syria in its best interests.
What is much more complicated is that while Hezbollah fights against the FSA by moving from Lebanon to Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in another front of the country simultaneously makes war with the FSA, which has been fighting against the Baath regime. Thus, two antagonistic forces wage war against the opposition forces in the civil war only to save the Baath regime. As I will analyze the interaction between ISIS and Iran in my next column, the main theme of the present piece is over Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian civil war and the question of why Hezbollah is being wasted and its positive image destroyed?
Many years ago, I had the chance to have a conversation with both Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah. They talked about the city governance of Hezbollah, which was fighting against Israel in southern Lebanon, through democratically elected municipalities, their moderate and constructive attitude in the assembly, their assimilation of democratic culture together with Lebanon's multiculturalism and the uniting sensibility of their political culture toward the country.
Under the circumstances of that period, Hezbollah, together with its religious leader Fadlallah and its political leader Nasrallah, posed an ideal image of religious structure that interpreted religious maxims wholesomely, treated the rights of others with respect and thus wholly differed from the dictatorships in Muslim countries.
Hezbollah fighters, who succeeded in defeating Israel in skirmishes and were enshrined by all Muslims, now set foot in Syria to kill Muslims in order to serve the Shiite crescent theory of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, which will eventually slide the whole Islamic world into chaos. In fact, Khamenei's theory is found dangerous even by principal Iranian leaders such as the influential politician and the former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, President Hassan Rouhani and former prime minister and opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Perhaps Hezbollah could have been one of the subjects of the recent agreement between Iran and the U.S. through which the former could have ensured the nonaggression of the Hezbollah toward Israel and thus abused it in the Syrian civil war.
Therefore, Hezbollah, the apple of all Muslims' eyes, is sacrificed for Khamenei's political ambitions while another constructive image in the Islamic world is destroyed to the detriment of Muslims who have been on the losing side since World War I.
