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Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, author and Middle East expert, Madison about Iran’s request to the international community to stop the flow of arms for militants in Syria.

- Iran’s key role and the influence it can have in resolving the crisis in Syria has been highlighted by the UN time and again and yet what we saw at the Geneva Two Conference was an utter fiasco.

Iran was given an invitation and then it was taken back by the UN due to pressures from the West.

It goes to show that even though they do know the path towards reaching a solution, they’re not following it. Why do you think that is so?

- I think it’s become clear that what’s happened in Syria is one example of these destabilization programs that have been deployed by the West by NATO or by some extreme elements of NATO against various countries with the same methodology each time.

And so the countries and the forces behind the destabilization of Syria as well as other countries including Ukraine, are not really interested in peace. Their purpose is to remove Syria from the equation as part of the axis of resistance and to do so in service of Zionism. These are strategic imperatives that led to the destabilization efforts.

It’s very interesting, isn’t it, that we learnt that in the Ukraine the snipers who fired into crowds and helped create conditions for the coup d’état that overthrew a democratically elected government were, we now learn, paid by the people who staged the coup d’état. These were the destabilization forces. The same thing was used to set off the conflict in Syria.

As we all recall these demonstrations were created through Face Book flurries and once there were crowds in the streets snipers started shooting at the crowds and at the soldiers and these are what started the civil war.

It was the same program and the same people. These were gladio-snipers who have destabilized both of these countries.

So I think it’s hoping for too much to expect that the international forces behind the destabilization of Syria would be honestly and sincerely interested in trying to bring peace and stability to Syria especially because the road to peace and stability has to go through allowing the current government play a role and just calling for regime change before the people of Syria have had a chance to vote.

As in the Ukraine it appears that these forces of destabilization don’t want people like the people of Crimea or the people of Syria to vote. And have a say in determining their own future.

- Looking at the recent military gains made by the Syrian army right now against these Takfiri insurgents; do you think that the West is being forced to reevaluate the change in the equations on the ground?

- Yes, it absolutely has. I think, the West has in a sense admitted failure and defeat in Syria. We’ve seen the Saudis having a huge fallout right now with other [Persian] Gulf nations and it seems that the Americans are no longer happy with the role the Saudis played in destabilizing Syria – launching a big false-flag attack in August at al-Ghouta

Apparently the Americans leaned on the Saudis and had the head of Saudi intelligence Mr. ‘Bandar Bush’ they call him [Prince Bandar Bin Sultan] removed from his post as the head of the Syria operation.

And that suggests that the US has gotten fed up with the way the Saudi intelligence was messing up the situation in Syria. So the forces of destabilization in Syria are in disarray and in retreat and the forces of stability in Syria are on the march.

And that’s good. Let’s just hope that the bad guys will admit defeat and pullout and stop sending in these arms and fueling this horrible sectarian strife.