Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood slams government for supporting Russian intervention in Syria

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt criticised what it described as “the Iran-Russia invasion of Syria”, asserting that the Russian military operation aims to suppress the real rebels.

The Russian airstrikes “aim to suppress the real revolutionaries fighting [Syrian President] Bashar’s sectarian repressive regime” but the Iranians and Russians are propagating false information about the “Iranian-Russian invasion” seeking to fight the Islamic State group, the Brotherhood said in a statement published on its website.

“Amidst an international conspiracy against the Arab World, and Islamic identity as mainstream Sunni Muslims, courageous Syria and its great men stand steadfast in an historic battle against the Russian and Iranian occupiers and their criminal partner [Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah] Al-Sisi,” said the statement, which was published under the title, “Muslim Brotherhood statement on the Iran-Russia invasion of Syria”.

The group reiterated their support for Syrians “and the revolution against the treacherous Alawite criminal Bashar Al-Assad.”

“The group refuses ongoing endeavours to divide Syria under the auspices of the Mullahs of Iran, the Czars of Russia and the criminal Zionists, with Arab blessings assisted by the heinous Al-Sisi,” the Brotherhood’s statement added.

The Islamist group further stressed that “the continuation of the Russian and Iranian occupation of Syria means matters will get even worse, with the resistance seen in Chechnya and Afghanistan repeated with tragic consequences for Tehran, Moscow and their allies.”

They called on “the free world to support Syria so it would not become another Iraq, Afghanistan or Chechnya,” warning that the military role played by Russia, Iran and their allies “is bound to create a hostile environment along sectarian lines that will plague the whole world”.