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Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review, about Syria urging the United Nations to stop Saudi Arabia from "supporting al-Qaeda-linked militants" and fanning the flames of "terrorism" in the country.

- Saudi Arabia’s role here is being described as that of a saboteur. I’d like to get your opinion on that if I may.

- Well unfortunately it is very unlikely that there will be any real positive result of this call by the Syrian government for action by the United Nations against serious support for the so-called Free Syrian Army or the opposition.

Even though by any reasonable standard, policies and actions carried out by the Free Syria Army have been terroristic by any reasonable standard. The reason it is unlikely that there will be any real positive development is that the United States will certainly veto any measure aimed at Saudi Arabia in the United Nations Security Council.

- Even though as you have just mentioned that you think that the UN is not really going to do much about this, it does highlight the role that Saudi Arabia is playing in the conflict in Syria. To what benefit does that go first of all to Saudi Arabia?

- Well Saudi Arabia of course is interested in opposing Iran and the regime in Syria but around the world the support by Saudi Arabia and the United States for the armed opposition in Syria has even more blatantly brought attention to the obvious hypocrisy of US policy in the region which is also supporting the rebels and of course it is closely allied with Saudi Arabia.

It is amazing that the United States which claims to be pressing for democracy in the regime is even more obviously allied … with the regime as blatantly undemocratic and as unrepresentative as Saudi Arabia.

It is after all the only country in the world named after a family and that is a regime that more closely resembles a family owned business than it does a real nation state.

- But then what of the claims of the West that they are concerned about the fact that some of these extremists that are fighting in Syria are going to come back and target their home countries?

- Well that is a very legitimate concern of course. Very often, governments set forces into motion that they are unable to control. That is very often a case in wars for the United States and for many other countries. Wars that are begun or are supported often turn out very, very differently than anybody ever expects.