Syrian Coalition: Iran’s Ayatollahs Use Syria’s Presidential “Election” to Ensure Their Candidate Remains in Power

Ahmad Jarba, president of the Syrian Coalition, said that the upcoming presidential elections in Syria are nothing more than an installment of Assad in power by Iran’s Ayatollahs, just as when Al-Baghdadi declared himself an Emir of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS). Jarba also said in a speech addressed to the Syrian people ahead of the presidential elections that those ballot boxes will never restore legitimacy to a serial killer, who wants to celebrate victory in the elections over the bodies of children and women.” Jarba thanked “the free world, including most of the Arab countries, who prevented this sham elections to be held on their soil. This terrorist regime is trying to force what remained of the Syrian people into participating in his sham elections using barrel bombs and chemical weapons. Assad thinks that he can build a modern state with institutions, unaware that armed gangs can only kill and rob the people of their rights.” Jarba also said that “the international community’s inaction towards Assad’s massacres embolden Assad to commit more massacres, and for Syrians time is blood. Assad’s elections recall to mind the elections held by Ceausescu when claimed that he got the full support of his people, before they rose up and topple him. All the events in Syria have clearly shown that there is a third option in Syria other than dictatorship and extremism, which is supporting the moderate opposition and empowering it to build a modern and democratic state in Syria.” Jarba concluded his speech addressing the very few people who voted in the elections. “You should have held posters of the barrel bombs and warplanes and tanks instead of Assad’s photos. (Source: Syrian Coalition)