Resistance Expected to Act Differently Now (Mohammad Ali Mohtadi, Iran Review)

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has started investigations into the recent death of its top military commander Mustafa Badreddin, known by his nickname “Zulfiqar.” The assassination of Seyyed Mustafa Badreddin at a safe house near Syria’s Damascus airport was the result of an explosion. Therefore, investigations into factors and tools used for this assassination are underway. Different theories and questions have been raised in this regard, including: has there been a bomb? Has the explosion been caused by a surface to surface or an air to surface missile? Has the missile, if it was a missile, been fired by a plane? What kind of explosion has it been? And there are also many similar questions to be answered in this regard. Therefore, extensive investigations will be needed to shed light on this issue and clarify main factors and causes of this incident

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Resistance-Expected-to-Act-Differently-Now.htm

The Riddle of Plan B as Envisaged by Saudis and Turkey (Mohammad Ali Mohtadi, Iran Review)

Following the Geneva conference as well as the Munich Security Conference and the agreements reached between the United States and Russia on the issue of Syria, hopes grew about finding a peaceful solution to Syria crisis in the way that had been mentioned in the final statement of the Munich Security Conference as well. The statement had specified that all sorts of hostile operations against Syria must come to an end. However, conflicts have been seen in recent behavior of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which by no means signal the possibility of ceasefire or peaceful resolution of Syria crisis and mostly prove that Ankara and Riyadh are still insisting on their past position, which requires the downfall of the government in Damascus. Saudi Arabia has announced that it is planning to dispatch ground forces to Syria and has already stationed a number of its military planes at Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base. Saudi Arabia’s position on the need to militarily interfere in Syria and topple the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has no legal basis and it is not clear how Adel al-Jubeir, foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, allows himself to call for the overthrow of the president of another country, which is an independent state.

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/The-Riddle-of-Plan-B-as-Envisaged-by-Saudis-and-Turkey.htm

Security Council Resolution Raises Hopes about Syria Solution (Mohammad Ali Mohtadi, Iran Review)

http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Security-Council-Resolution-Raises-Hopes-about-Syria-Solution.htm