By Ardo Juweid
ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – The city of Aleppo in northwest Syria is the most important and strategic city for Iran to carry out its plans in controlling the traditions of its population to turn it later to a Persian colony.
Wissam Khayyata, 24, a pseudonym for a teacher in the educational department of Husayn shrine in Jebb al-Jalabi neighborhood of Aleppo, describes the work in the department as “comfortable, and the officials in charge of it provide all the assistance for the students at very low prices.”
“There is a high turnout by students in the department, at a stage where the registration fees and taking courses in other institutes became at very high costs comparing with the low fees received by the institute”, Khayyata tells North Press.
These centers provide job opportunities for new graduates, a chance they cannot get at the government departments.
Teachers in those centers receive salaries exceeding 800,000 Syrian pounds (SYP) – equals to about $60.
The educational department includes halls for teaching languages such as Persian, Arabic, German, French, and English as well as computer halls and scientific laboratories for training.
The Iranian cultural control is organized by adopting orphaned children and giving them sponsorship and care “in order to use them to form a sectarian army that is subject to the Iranian army, like the army that was formed in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the future, it will occupy the thoughts of the Syrians,” according to observers.
Iran intensifies its efforts and spends millions on children who are in need of care in poor areas, and thus the army, founded by the children and youth of this city, will be a first step in a project to set fast-moving armies in most areas of Syria, with the aim of achieving goals and implementing the Iranian military and political plan through prevailing Shiism in the region.
In Jebb al-Jalabi neighborhood, there is a Shiite shrine with a mosque that Iran named “al-Nuqta”, where the call to prayer is held for all Islamic prayers 15 minutes apart from each prayer in the city and in the Shiite method.
Raouf al-Ali, a pseudonym for a lawyer specializing in international political affairs, tells North Press that the presence of youth groups in Iranian centers within the shrine is “an encouraging movement to make children and adolescents listen to the call for the prayer without anyone else in this age period.
“The Iranians are working to make these cities under their grip, which allows them to cut the road between Turkey and the Arab countries easily, and facilitates their Persian project, which aims to reach the Mediterranean Sea”, al-Ali added.
“Iranian forces are working to change the archaeological landmarks in Aleppo and destroy them for the interest of their future presence”, Alaa Lamea, researcher in history and interested in Aleppo antiquities, said.
“Iran exploited its religious rooting to achieve its goals, whether in the short or long term, and to achieve that, Iranians work on holding religious seminars and plays that have a sectarian feature about al-Hussein’s suffering and his killing process under the name of “The Sun Rises from Aleppo”, Lamea added.