Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement Leader Michel Aoun:"Efforts to Topple Bashar Al-Assad Lead to World War III."

Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement Leader Michel Aoun:"Efforts to Topple Bashar Al-Assad Lead to World War III."(Fars).

"I don't think the Syrian regime would collapse, but if it gets close to collapse, a new world war will erupt because China and Russia won't let the regime in Syria collapse," Aoun said Friday. 

In an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV, Aoun said US interests in the region are based on controlling Syrian oil and ensuring the safety of Israel. "The US is interested in Israel's security and this requires targeting Syria," he added. Aoun also warned against extremism, and said, "There are already organizations loyal to Al-Qaeda under different names in the country and no one knows their connections." The US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have been supporting terrorists and rebel groups in Syria and have practically brought a UN peace initiative into failure to bring President Assad's government into collapse. Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country. Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes. The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad. Read the full story here.