{"id":233669,"date":"2021-05-10T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=233669"},"modified":"2021-05-11T06:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:25:59","slug":"leaked-documents-prove-uk-funded-anti-damascus-groups-assads-top-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=233669","title":{"rendered":"Leaked documents prove UK funded anti-Damascus groups: Assad’s top aide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 May 9, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A senior aide to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the United Kingdom of funding anti-Damascus groups to stoke further unrest in the Arab country and said Western states were exerting pressure on Syrian officials to dissent from the government.<\/p>\n

Bouthaina Shaaban, Assad\u2019s political and media adviser, made the remarks in a video conference organized by the German Schiller Institute on Saturday, entitled \u201cThe Moral Collapse of the Trans-Atlantic World Cries Out for a New Paradigm,\u201d Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.<\/p>\n

Shaaban said Syria has been waging a \u201cdouble-edged\u201d war over the past decade, one on the ground against terrorists wreaking havoc in the country and the other against a Western-backed drive for inciting dissent within government ranks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll that happened in Syria of destruction, death, and displacement, were because of Western intelligence institutions which, in cooperation with Turkey, trained thousands of terrorists to achieve a single goal which is destroying Syria,\u201d the presidential aide said, adding that the West was dealing with Syria as if it were still under their colonization, ignoring its deep-rooted history and values.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shaaban also said leaked British documents revealed that the United Kingdom \u201cofficially funded\u201d groups of Syrian dissidents who called themselves \u201cwitnesses\u201d to launch street movements and provide news for Western media outlets.<\/p>\n

Assad\u2019s political and media adviser told the video conference that, \u201cWestern governments were pressing Syrian officials to dissent and bribing some of them with money to join those against the Syrian government, assuring them the political system is going to fall and collapse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Syrian government troops and their allies have managed to retake some 80 percent of the war-ravaged Arab country\u2019s territory from the Takfiri terrorists.<\/p>\n

The Syrian army is fighting to drive out the remaining militants, but the presence of US and European forces in addition to Turkish troops has slowed down its advances.<\/p>\n

The United States has also imposed crippling sanctions on Damascus. The Syrian government has repeatedly denounced Washington\u2019s unilateral sanctions as \u201ccrimes against humanity,\u201d saying the Western sponsors of terrorism must pay the price for their atrocities against the Syrian nation.<\/p>\n

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban – the role of Western media in destruction of Syria<\/strong><\/h2>\n