No country has done more--financially and military--to back the Assad regime’s mass murder of Syrians than the Islamic Republic of Iran, a theocracy that rules from a moral pedestal mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/wor…
To add insult to injury, all Iranian officials-including "moderates" like @jzarif-have denied Assad’s use of chemical weapons, while simultaneously invoking Saddam Hussein’s heinous CW attacks on Iran--30 years ago--to justify their regional policies
.@jzarif has paid no reputational cost for whitewashing Assad's use of CW (most recently July 2017 at @CFR_org cfr.org/event/conversa…). On the contrary the Nobel Peace Prize committee continues to float his name as nominee bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In its 40 year history the Iranian regime has committed many abuses against its own population, including mass executions of 5K Iranian political prisoners in the summer of 1988 economist.com/blogs/newsbook…
But when the history of the Islamic Republic is written, its brazen complicity in Syria's ongoing devastation--500K dead, 12m displaced, thousands gassed to death--may prove its darkest stain of all middleeastmonitor.com/20180206-germa…
