How Come Washington is Capable of Seeing Through Syrian Walls

Against the backdrop of the recent failed Washington’s attempts to spread categorical and unsubstantiated accusations against Damascus, claiming that it has used chemical weapons for no apparent reason in Khan Shaykhun, Western think tanks decided to transform their discontent into yet another attempt to bring the Syrian government down, thus obstructing the fight against terrorism that both Russia and Iran have been carrying in this war-torn country.

In accordance with the tried and tested scheme of using fake “evidence”, like the mysterious tubes that Colin Powell was shaking in front of the international community’s representatives on the eve of the US aggression against Iraq, the State Department has decided to indulge in hysteria on the eve of Donald Trump’s first trip to the Middle East. This time the influential American diplomat Stuart Jones and the permanent US representative to the UN, Nikki Haley are leading the charge with a report on the atrocities allegedly committed by the Syrian authorities, accompanied by a barrage of publications in the media that always appear in media sources like The Wall Street Journal when the White House is up to something.

We are being told that Syrian authorities are hanging a dozen of detainees a day, while the bodies of the executed are burned in a special crematorium, with the extensive amount of support provided by Russia and Iran, says the report drafted by Stewart Jones.

All these atrocities are allegedly committed in the Sednaya Prison near Damascus. The conclusions about the existence of a “crematorium” for burning “the hanged” were made on the basis of satellite images taken by US satellites, The Wall Street Journal claims.

Any sane person understands that no matter how advanced the US satellites get, Washington is in no possession of cameras that can see through walls and floors. What is curious that those satellites are still somehow capable of providing Washington with enough information for it to make such dubious claims, with them still being unable to capture the fierce struggle that the Syrian army troops, supported by Russian and Iranian forces, are facing every day to liberate one settlement occupied by ISIS after another.

The best part of this report is that no other evidence has ever been provided.

In addition to these “sensational statements”, Jones accused Moscow and Tehran in supporting the Syrian government, despite the alleged human rights abuses it must be committing, including the “imaginary crematorium practices” that the report emphasizes.

In all likelihood, this, according to the plans of the “strategists”, should become a prelude to a new missile “retaliation attack”, following the pattern that we’ve seen with the attack against the Syrian air base Shayrat Airbase. And, as always, without something as remotely credible as actual evidence.

Yes, today Washington is on the loser’s side in Syria, especially after the successful conclusions of the recent peaceful discussions in Astana, where Washington was denied the right to play a “protocol role.” And for Washington it does not matter that the representatives of the international community, including the United Nations special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, agree that some serious progress has been made in the Syrian negotiation process. Since Washington is unable to claim that it was behind this success, it keeps sounding new attacks against Damascus, and at the same time, Moscow, Tehran.

The accusations that Russia is somehow involved in the “daily executions” in Syria go in tune with the latest Russophobic hysteria that can be observed in certain political circles in the United States. They keep saying that Moscow was interfering in the US presidential election, even though everybody understands that in the absence of any evidence those claims are unfounded, and now they argue that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov received some super-secret reports during his meeting with Trump. As usual, no evidence is ever needed to come up with some accusations in the American media.

As for the accusations against Tehran featured in this “report”, it should be noted that those fit well with the anti-Iranian tactics adopted by the White House. Especially, if you are to take into account that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has recently told NBC that the Trump administration is planning a crusade against Iran. Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to the Middle East, in part, is designed to manifest Washington’s anti-Iranian sentiments.

Grete Mautner is an indepenent researcher and journalist from Germany, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”