Anti-Iran Sunni Jihadi Groups Congratulate Muslims On Downfall Of Bashar Al-Assad In Syria: 'Allah Willing, We Will Soon Witness The Victory Of The Revolution Of The Iranian People, The Oppressed Sunnis'

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Leading anti-Iran jihadi organizations Ansar Al-Furqan and Ansar Al-Adl, two Sunni jihadi organizations fighting Iranian security forces, have welcomed the fall of Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria, according to jihadi media accounts. Both the jihadi organizations, which are inter-connected and comprise Baloch fighters, are active in Sistan Wa Balochestan region of Iran, situated along Pakistan's bordering Baluchistan province.

On December 8, Mawlawi Nasrullah Baloch, spokesperson for Ansar Al-Furqan, issued a statement congratulating Muslims, saying that the people of Syria have now, after a long time, experienced the taste of freedom, and after decades of oppression and tyranny by the allies of the Iranian regime, the flag of the tyrants has now been removed from their land.[1]

"It is our duty, along with our brothers, as flag bearers on the front line of resistance against the brutal Khamenei regime, to fight and struggle for the complete eradication of the regime's remnants and to eliminate oppression from our land, so that all Muslims around the world can be freed from this plague of the era," Baloch said in the Farsi-language statement.[2]

The statement issued by Ansar Al-Furqan spokesman

Earlier on December 6, the official Telegram channel of Jaish Al-Adl, released a congratulatory message to Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham's mujahideen on their victories in Syria.

"We congratulate the Syrian revolutionaries on their victories over the criminal Ba'ath regime and the sectarian and seditious Iranian regime to all the oppressed and suffering people in Syria, as well as all the free people of the world, especially the Muslims of the Middle East," Jaish Al-Adl said in a Farsi-language statement.[3]

Noting that the pain and suffering that has befallen the Syrian people and other lands of the Middle East over the past years has its roots in the evil regime of Iran, it said, adding: "In such circumstances, it is necessary for Islamic countries, and indeed all countries of the world, to stand by the Syrian revolutionaries instead of opposing the oppressed people of Syria, so that they can more successfully expel the corpse and the evil spirit of Iran from their land, which intends to destroy the world with its allies."[4]

A copy of Jaish Al-Adl statement on Syria

In a second statement, issued on December 9, Jaish Al-Adl again congratulated Syrians as well as all the free people of the world "on the victory of the great Syrian revolution" and also wished that the great revolution of the Syrian people would reach stability as soon as possible and that the path to prosperity, development, dignity, and the greatness of Syria would be paved.[5]

"Allah willing, we will soon witness the victory of the revolution of the Iranian people, the oppressed Sunnis, and the Baloch Muslim people against the root of all the troubles in the Middle East, namely the regime of Iran," Jaish Al-Adl stated.[6]