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July 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
With an average daily death toll of 100 in Syria in recent weeks, Mr Annan has
conceded that a ceasefire proposal he drafted in April is “failing”.
But he has refused to declare the plan dead.
Mr Annan refused to disclose the specifics of his agreement with Mr Assad. But
a Syrian state newspaper close to the regime reported that the two men had
discussed an international initiative, formulated in Geneva this month,
proposing that the government and opposition share power in a transitional
government.
Western powers were blocked by Russia from demanding that Mr Assad be excluded
from such an administration, although they insisted that the agreement
implied he should step down and go into exile.
But in an interview with a German television station, Mr Assad declared that
he was not going anywhere, saying that the love and support of his people
sustained in office and helped him to withstand pressure from his Western
adversaries.
Mr Assad even went so far as to claim that the 108 people killed in the Houla
massacre in May were in fact his supporters.
Rebels had donned army uniforms to carry out the killings, during which 49
children died, in order to pin the blame on his forces, he told the ARD
network.
Accusing the West of “partnering” with terrorists, he claimed that
for all the rebels’ subterfuge, the reality was that the vast majority of
Syrians still supported him.
“The United States is against me, the West is against me, many regional
powers and countries [are] against me, so how could I stay in this position?”
he said. “The answer is, I still have public support.”
Getting the Syrian president’s approval for the Geneva initiative was always
going to be the easy part for Mr Annan, especially after it became apparent
that there would be no explicit demand for him to step down.
But the opposition has adamantly refused to sit in any administration that
includes the Syrian leader and it is unclear how the UN envoy hopes to get
round this.
Opposition leaders are already furious that Mr Annan met the Syrian leader at
all, saying that the encounter provided Mr Assad with a mantle of legitimacy
that he had long ceased to deserve.
Their anger is likely to be roused further after Mr Annan flew to Tehran to
brief Iranian officials on his peace efforts before consulting them.
Syrian opposition leaders, who are holding meetings with Kremlin officials in
Moscow this week, will nonetheless hope that Russia’s arms announcement
could signal the beginning of a behind-the-scenes drive to ease Mr Assad
from office.
Russia has provided much of the Syrian army’s firepower, from helicopters to
advanced missiles that have given the Assad regime a defensive edge few of
his Arab contemporaries enjoy.
By effectively suspending the lucrative defence relationship, Moscow has less
incentive to maintain its political support for Mr Assad that has so far
seen Russia block two United Nations Security Council resolutions on Syria.
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