Syrian President Bashar al Assad speaks softly but carries a big stick, as he blamed foreign plotters, incl Turkey, for the Syrian protests entering nearly its 2nd year.

Damascus / NationalTurk – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad affirmed on Tuesday that the campaign against Syria, whipped up by hundreds of Western and Arab governments and media, has failed and he will continue to crash them with an iron fist.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vows to strike ‘terrorists’ with an iron fist and lashes out the Arab League. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad blamed foreign plotters Tuesday for the 10-month-old protests against his regime and vowed to crush their “terrorism” with an iron fist.

“The regional and international parties that have worked on destabilizing Syria will not be able anymore to distort the facts and the reality of the country”, the Syrian leader highlighted in a speech delivered at Damascus University.

Bashar al Assad – Syria Protests are act of terror whipped by Arab World and West

Events in Syria, organized, encouraged and financed from abroad, “have bled out the heart of every Syrian and imposed conditions that are a challenge and a test for our nationalism”, noted the Tyrant president Assad on Syrian Tv, blaming also Turkey and Erdogan administration indirectly.

Al-Assad denounced that the media has worked and acted against Syria to push it on the brink of collapse, “but these actions have failed”, he insisted and vowed to respond to threats against him with an “iron hand” and refused to step down insisting he still has his people’s support despite the 10-month-old uprising against him.

Assad lashes out powers behind protesters, he refers to as terrorists

In his first speech since June, Bashar al-Assad repeated claims that a foreign conspiracy and terrorists are behind the unrest, not true reform-seekers. “Our priority now is to regain security which we basked in for decades, and this can only be achieved by hitting the terrorists with an iron hand,” al-Assad said in a nearly two-hour speech at Damascus University, where he stood at a podium flanked by Syrian flags.

The opposition Syrian National Council said the rare speech pushes the country closer to civil war, and the Local Coordination Committees, which organize the protests, urged the world to isolate his regime.

In the speech just hours before UN Security Council discussions on Syria, al-Assad denied security forces had orders to fire on civilian protesters, even as activists reported regime gunmen killed 13 more civilians. The UN estimates 5,000 have been killed in violence since March.

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