Press Release
The Money Used to Kill Us, How Can We Commit to Pay It Back?!
(Translated)

In an interview with the Financial Times, the Syrian foreign minister revealed the new government’s vision for a post-Assad Syria, stressing that the country “does not want to live on aid,” and that the solution lies in easing American and European sanctions. He added that the government does not plan to export the revolution or interfere in the affairs of other countries. Thus, indicating a radical change in foreign policy. He also indicated in the same interview the intention to privatize state-owned ports and factories and attract foreign investment, despite the major challenges facing Syria, including $30 billion debts to Assad’s former allies; Iran and Russia.

Throughout the years of the revolution, the people of Ash-Sham have tasted all forms of Iranian criminality; its brutality and bloodshed, its criminality and killing, and its hateful sectarianism that it used as the spearhead in fighting the revolution of Ash-Sham and its sincere sons. It killed many of the sons of the revolution and committed many massacres. It carried its Persian sectarian project and scorched the earth and the people to implement it. It tried hard to end our revolution and bring us back to the bosom of the regime again. But its efforts failed and its money and efforts were a disaster for it. After it came the spiteful Russia, it came with all its might, it came with its deadly aircraft, and it committed massacre after massacre. It did not respect any kinship or covenants with the people of the revolution. It brutalized and plotted, and its plots was backfired on it, by Allah’s grace. In the end, it failed and its efforts failed.

O People of Ash-Sham: These are some of the actions of the Russian and Iranian criminals. No money is paid to such people, and no rights are recognized. Rather, they are demanded to pay compensation for the crimes they committed against the people of Ash-Sham, and they should be treated with open hostility. They killed and displaced many of us. These criminal killers are the ones who should pay and provide compensation to those who were killed and displaced. These hateful, criminal killers have no rights with us. Therefore, they must be held accountable, demanded, and made to taste from the cup of their treachery, deceit, and conspiracy.

These people in the political arena are being held accountable, and the money they paid is a witness against them and not a right they have, because our acknowledgment that they have debts and money is an implicit acknowledgment of the legitimacy of their crimes.

These people must be held accountable sooner rather than later, and the first step to accountability is their expulsion from Ash-Sham and the expulsion of their bases from Ash-Sham.

What they paid was against our revolution and for the sake of killing us.

Confronting these criminals and other conspiring countries is done by taking the ideological positions imposed on us by our Islamic Aqeedah (creed), not by resorting to flattering and appeasing them! It is done by working as quickly as possible to build a strong army that protects the country, with its core being the sincere mujahideen, and relying on the sincere sons of the revolution so that their energies and capabilities are in the service of their Ummah, as they are the people of sacrifice and endurance in sacrifice.

It is our duty to strive to consolidate the constants of the revolution of Ash-Sham and strive to please our Lord alone by establishing His state, the Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly-Guided Caliphate), on the method of Prophethood and implementing His Shariah. In that alone are the only true solutions that will solve all our problems, because we will be in the company of Allah Alone, and He (swt) will support us against the plots of the plotters.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Syria