Is Iran ready to mount a resistance against a possible outside attack on Syria?

Iran is ready to mount a resistance against a possible outside attack on Syria, two senior generals of the Islamic Republic said. The statements come as the level of violence in war-torn Syria continues to escalate.

¬The pro-Assad “resistance” would ensure that aggressors do not survive the conflict, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier Gen. Massoud Jazaeri told Mashregh, a media outlet run by the Guards.

“A conflict in Syria will engulf the region and its main victims will be the people of Syria themselves,” he also noted. “The Zionist regime and the interests of the enemies of Syria are all within range of the resistance fire.”

“The defeat of the enemy at this stage will be a big event and, God willing, we will witness that,” Jazaeri added.

Mashragh earlier reported that Iran’s armed forces had formed a joint war room with officers from “the resistance,” which includes Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, which controls parts of Lebanon.

Brigadier General Mohammed Reza Naqdi, (left) the head of Iran’s Basij militia who was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for alleged human rights abuses, said Tehran would not tolerate foreign interference to topple President Bashar al-Assad. He alleged that the United States was considering taking action in Syria to protect Israel.

“After the expulsion of the Americans from Iraq, and the disruption to their defensive posture in protecting the Zionist regime, America in order to defend the regime of the occupier of the Quds [Jerusalem] is after a new scenario in Syria,” he said. “But they will be defeated.”

Furthermore, he stressed that any attack on Syria or Iran would have negative consequences for Israel.

“Today all the people of the region are ready for wiping out this cancerous tumor and reaction to any aggression will be the freedom of Quds,” he said.

The statements come as violence in Syria continues to spiral out of control. Massacres of civilians, many of them women and children, have become routine, with the latest bloodshed happening earlier this week in the Hama province. Up to 78 people died in the mass killing, which came just a day before UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan addressed the General Assembly and the Security Council on the situation in the country.

The UN largely put the blame on the Syrian government and called for all parties to follow Annan’s six-point peace plan. The United States, the United Kingdom, France and others were quick to draw conclusions and called for more drastic measures to be taken against President Assad. Russia and China urged caution in pointing fingers, saying both sides were to blame.

Iran has been a staunch ally of the Assad government. Some analysts believe that the ongoing Syrian conflict is largely rooted in religion. Assad and the ruling elite are mostly members of the Alawite group, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Analysts argue that Shiite-dominated governments, such as Iran and Syria, have been pitted against Sunni countries and groups, including the Syrian opposition, Saudi

Arabia and Qatar. Western nations have traditionally relied on the Sunni side, though this has not always been the case. End of Quote

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The late and great Barry R Smith once said that one has only to read the headlines, as the rest of the article was only just someone's opinion. Accordingly, all that we are able to do in this instance is to take what the writer has said with a grain of salt as all that he is proposing is just one potential scenario, out of a million possibilities.

In the short term both sides are going to continue on with pointing the finger of blame at the other side with no real outcome looking likely on the horizon until we see the emergence and intervention of the Antichrist with a peace treaty sure to be implemented.

That looks like being the substance of the matter what other promises either side manages to come up with?

What we see going on in the Middle East and the Euro Zone in crisis seems to be just the tip of the iceberg with what is ready to emerge out of all of this is going to be the start of something quite out of the box.

In other words, all of this is going to come to some sort of shattering climax, such as the arrival of the Antichrist onto the scene to take control before too much water passes under the bridge. Even though I do not favour the Antichrist, there is still hope that he is able to intervene before the Syrian situation spirals out of control and spreads to other nations in the Middle East.

That seems to be the main problem on the minds of the diplomats (such as Kofi Annan) particularly in the light of the recent announcement that Iran is a staunch ally of the Assad government and will side with their friends should push come to shove: see the attached article.

If looking to identify the Antichrist, look for someone who is a clever diplomat, someone who is able to bind nations together, and someone who is, or has been in politics. Most importantly, look for someone who is able to bring a temporary type of peace to the whole world, (starting in the Middle East) for a very brief period. If there is anyone, you know who has achieved all of the aforementioned than more than likely he would score quite high on the scorecard as possible Antichrist suspects.

However, at the stage of this writing there is no one who has been able to come up with the goods. Accordingly, all that we are able to do is to keep watching and waiting to see how all of this is going to pan out eventually, as per usual.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.