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Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Randy Short, political commentator from Washington, about the targeting of Christians in Syria by foreign-backed Takfiri terrorist groups that include a massacre of 45 Christians, women and children, in the remote village of Sadad; atrocities ignored by Western mainstream media.

- First of all, why is it that Christians let alone Muslims are becoming the victims of terror by the insurgents?

- This is a design. I need to make it clear that the Saudis who are supporting this strongly, are equal-opportunity Christian killers. They are killing them in Saudi Arabia - the Ethiopians working who are there are persecuted.

These Christian minorities have been persecuted all over the Middle East. And the United States is equally guilty because their intervention in the region for the last 12 years has made life hard for Christian minorities.

And then there is the ignorance in the Western world particularly in the United States that imagines only Muslims in the Middle East, which gives them a justification to support Christian Zionism and the persecution of all Muslims at the expense of Muslims and Christians who happen to live in the Middle East.

And the media of course is controlled by Zionists, many of them happen to be in that persecuted minority group that has Israel. Of course, they don’t want to alert people who happen to be Christian to understand that they’re helping kill Christians because that gets into a long discussion going way back that’s not pleasant for them.

-Where is the situation in Syria heading? Who has the upper hand in Syria now?

- The government has the upper hand; however, the government is besieged. The government is being persecuted. It’s facing all sorts of things that are being done to break the backs of the Syrian people who recognize that Bashar (President al-Assad) is going to be the head of state and only negotiated peace is the answer.

But you have spoilers like Saudi Arabia; spoilers like the United States and Turkey… who are generating all this violence. They need to leave this alone and let negotiations take place.

War is what makes money; it allows people to grab and to take things that are not theirs.

But the government of Syria remains strong. They’ve defeated the odds; they’ve embarrassed Obama - shown him to be a buffoon in terms of getting his agenda across in Syria….

And Saudi Arabia is failing and it’s falling apart on the inside as it turns on its own immigrants who make the empire run for the handful that take from everyone else.