headed to Jordan<\/a> today to \u201cdiscuss a political breakthrough from Syria crisis,\u201d according to a statement by Ramin Mehmanparast, spokesman of Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\nSyria’s Holy Shrines being attacked in the same time frame as the Israeli attack on Damascus<\/span><\/p>\nThe Muslim world (mostly Shias) was in a rage. People, governments, scholars and Shia groups held demonstrations around the world, especially in Iran. They blamed the US and Israel for these calamities.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe \u201cUS and Israel are behind these desecrations,\u201d Said Sayyed Hussain Naghavi, spokesman of the National Security Commission in Iran\u2019s Majlis in an interview with Iran’sView.com.<\/span><\/p>\nHe believes that every Islamic group respects Prophet Muhammad and his companions, so those extremists who desecrate Muslims’ sanctity have no place in the Islamic world.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cBecause those who perform these anti-religious acts are mercenaries who are paid by Zionists, this was an insult to the all of the Islamic world, not just the sanctity of a particular creed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n“We are against desecration of sanctity of any different creed of Islam and anyone who insults others’ belief will be punished according to Iran’s law.” added Naghavi.<\/span><\/p>\nReligous leaders strongly condemned these calamities and reiterated the need for unity between Shias and Sunnis.<\/span><\/p>\nThey blamed \u201cTakfiri terrorists who were provoked by Zionists and their slave states in the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also accused western powers of being the main culprit in the desecration in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n234 Iranian MPs condemned the desecration of Hujr Ibn Uday’s tomb. The Parliamentary party of the Iranian Sunnis also condemned the desecration of Prophet Muhammad’s companion’s tomb.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMuhammad Reza Naghdi, a senior IRGC official and the commander of the Basij force commented differently. He said, \u201cthe desecration was a hasty response by the US to the Ulama conference in Tehran, because this conference has affected US plans in the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSome analysts believe that Syrian army achievements in Aleppo, Damascus and some areas in Al-Qasayr which are on the border with Lebanon forced the opposition extremists to retaliate.<\/span><\/p>\n“It seems that the recent desecrations and the Israeli missile attack on Damascus are meant to put political and psychological pressures on Syria, so the country and its foreign supporters will lose focus. Armed Syrian oppositions believe this will work for their benefits,” Muhammad Darabi, a West Asia analyst told Iran\u2019sView.<\/span><\/p>\n“These actions were carried out to pave the way for the demolition of other Islamic symbols especially Masjid Al-Aqsa in Quds ( Jerusalem). We will see a strong answer from Muslims and especially Shias because they can’t take in any further desecration,\u201d Darabi who has been working in study centers on Syria and Lebanon added.<\/span><\/p>\nFollowing these attacks, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, said the group will be defending Zaynab shrine to prevent any attacks from Takfiris.<\/span><\/p>\nAyatollah Sayed Mojtaba Husseini Iran’s Supreme Leader representative in Syria also warned against any attacks on Zaynab and Roqayeh shrines. \u201cWe would respond firmly to any desecration at any time,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Husseini Iran’s Supreme Leader representative in Syria also warned against any attacks on Zaynab and Roqayeh shrines. \u201cWe would respond firmly to any desecration at any time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,2,10],"tags":[39,170,113,166,535,532,168,169,538,546,167],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/iransview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/syria-shia-holy-shrine.jpg?fit=448%2C252&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ogT0-7I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}