Syria’s interim prime minister, who stressed that the recent violence in the country poses a threat to “unity,” claims that “a foreign power allied with the former government” is responsible for the unrest in Syria.

In an interview with Reuters published on Monday, March 10, Ahmed al-Sharaa said that loyalists of former President Bashar al-Assad, members of the 4th Division under the command of Maher al-Assad and “a foreign power allied with the former regime” in Syria, started the fighting.

He did not name this foreign power, but his reference to “groups that lost in the new situation in Syria” could be a reference to Iran as an ally of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

And as usual, the thief's hat is on fire.

The Iranian embassy in Damascus has been closed since the city fell to opponents of the previous regime, and Iran has denied any role in the recent violence.

However, Iranian state media, including the Islamic Republic News Agency, have referred to the violence in western Syria as an "uprising" against the new rulers and called the protesters "resistance cells."

More than a thousand people have been killed so far in four days of clashes between Syrian security forces and the opposition, whom the new Syrian government calls "remnants of Bashar al-Assad's regime," a significant number of them civilians in areas populated by Alawites.