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About us

Naame Shaam is an independent campaign group focusing on the Iranian regime’s role in Syria. It is also a source of independent and reliable news and commentary on the Syrian revolution and the Iranian regime’s role in suppressing it. We are a group of Iranian, Syrian and Lebanese activists and citizen-journalists. The group’s Campaign Director is Fouad Hamdan from Lebanon. The Head of Research and Advocacy is Shiar Youssef from Syria. The other members of the group wish to remain anonymous for the time being for security reasons.

Online, Offline

We carry out peaceful, real-life actions and protests to put pressure on the Iranian regime and to influence the public narrative about the Syrian revolution.

Our first action was in Berlin in April 2014, coinciding with a German-Iranian business conference there. It was followed by actions in Vienna ahead and during nuclear talks between the P5+1 group of nations and the Iranian regime in May 2014.

In April 2014 we published an open letter to Syrian opposition leaders and activists, asking them to talk to the Iranian public in Farsi. The reaction was positive, and the narrative of the Syrian revolution about the Iranian regime’s role has started to change.

More actions and campaigns followed…

The Beginning

On Friday, 8 November 2013, like every Friday since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, anti-regime protests were held in various neighbourhoods and towns in Syria. The name given to this Friday was “The Friday of No to the Iranian Occupation of Syria”.

As we watched the pictures and videos of the protests, we realized that Iranians knew so little about what’s actually happening in Syria. Most of their information comes from biased state-controlled media.

Moreover, it struck us that there was actually little concrete and reliable information about Iran’s role in Syria and in Lebanon:

– How much is the Iranian government spending from Iranian public money on arming and supporting the Syrian regime in its bloody war against the Syrian people?

– How many Sepah Pasdaran members are fighting alongside Syrian regime forces in Syria, or are they really only acting as “advisers”, as they claim?

– What is the extent of Hezbollah Lebanon’s involvement in Syria?

– Why is the Iranian regime spending so much money on its adventure in Syria? What is it aiming to achieve there?

Thus, on 10 February 2014, we started a Facebook page, and a website a month later, dedicated to exposing the role of the Iranian regime in Syria. Offline work followed soon (see above).

Change of focus

When Naame Shaam started in late 2013, hardly anyone in Syria and Iran was focusing on the Iranian regime’s role in suppressing the Syrian revolution. There was little reliable information, beyond general clichés, on the extent and nature of Sepah Pasdaran’s and Hezbollah Lebanon’s involvement in the war in Syria. So we launched Naame Naame as an attempt to fill this gap.

Now that this involvement is no longer a secret (even Sepah and Hezbollah commnders are now bragging  about it) and many mainstream and independent media outlets are covering this issue extensively, there seems to be less need for our news and information production services.

Our intention from the beginning was to combine news and information with campaigning work, but the former inevitably took a big chunk of our time and energy because we thought it was necessary at the time. This is no longer the case now.

So, in July 2014, we decided to focus mainly on campaigning and actions, with the hope that our small contribution will help end the bloodshed in Syria and bring those responsible to justice. And ‘those’ here includes, first and foremost, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who are the ones running the show in Syria today.

We have talked the talk; now it’s time to walk the walk!

 

 

The Campaign Director is Fouad Hamdan from Lebanon. The Head of Research and Advocacy is Shiar Youssef from Syria. The other members of the group wish to remain anonymous for the time being for security reasons.

Vice: “Is Syria about to become Iran’s Vietnam?”

Vice: “Is Syria about to become Iran’s Vietnam?”

An article by Torie Rose DeGhett, Vice News, October 8, 2015, quoting Naame Shaam’s Campaigns Director Fouad Hamdan: “Hamdan represents another camp; when asked if Iran is already over its head inside the civil war, his answer is, “yes, absolutely.” “Specifically referencing Hezbollah’s involvement, Hamdan believes that, […]

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French inquiry into Syria war crimes should include Iranian and Hezbollah role

French inquiry into Syria war crimes should include Iranian and Hezbollah role

FRENCH INQUIRY INTO SYRIA WAR CRIMES SHOULD INCLUDE IRANIAN AND HEZBOLLAH ROLE Scope of investigation should be widened to include chemical attacks, barrel bombs and sectarian cleansing The Hague, 5 October 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today welcomed the preliminary inquiry opened by prosecutors […]

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Cause of Syrian refugee ‘crisis’ is Iranian regime’s support for mass murder and sectarian cleansing in Syria

Cause of Syrian refugee ‘crisis’ is Iranian regime’s support for mass murder and sectarian cleansing in Syria

CAUSE OF SYRIAN REFUGEE ‘CRISIS’ IS IRANIAN REGIME’S SUPPORT FOR MASS MURDER AND SECTARIAN CLEANSING IN SYRIA EU and UN should send bills for dealing with millions of Syrian refugees to Tehran The Hague, 11 September 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today said the […]

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Experts should sample sites of chlorine bomb attacks in Syria for highly toxic dioxin and investigate Iranian role

Experts should sample sites of chlorine bomb attacks in Syria for highly toxic dioxin and investigate Iranian role

EXPERTS SHOULD SAMPLE SITES OF CHLORINE BOMB ATTACKS IN SYRIA FOR HIGHLY TOXIC DIOXIN New Joint Investigative Mechanism should also investigate role of Iranian Revolutionary Guards in chemical attacks in Syria The Hague, 19 August 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today demanded that the […]

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Part two of Syria Direct’s interview with Naame Shaam: US policy in Syria is all about systemically bleeding Iran & Hezbollah

Part two of Syria Direct’s interview with Naame Shaam: US policy in Syria is all about systemically bleeding Iran & Hezbollah

US policy in Syria ‘to systemically bleed Iran, Hezbollah’ Kristen Gillespie, Syria Direct, 13 Aug 2015, link “Many in DC claim that the US administration has no Syria strategy,” says Fouad Hamdan, executive director of the grassroots activist network Naame Shaam. “Wrong; President Obama’s Syria policy is […]

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Part one of Syria Direct’s interview with Naame Shaam’s Fouad Hamdan: Iran is occupying Syria, Assad doesn’t matter

Part one of Syria Direct’s interview with Naame Shaam’s Fouad Hamdan: Iran is occupying Syria, Assad doesn’t matter

Naame Shaam: Iran militarily occupying Syria, ‘Assad doesn’t matter’ Kristen Demilio, Syria Direct, 12 Aug 2015, link In the spring of 2014, a handful of Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian activists held a protest in Berlin denouncing Tehran’s involvement in the Syrian war. “Syria is Iran’s Vietnam,” read […]

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Iran nuclear deal misses opportunity to stop destabilising policies of Iranian regime

Iran nuclear deal misses opportunity to stop destabilising policies of Iranian regime

IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL MISSES OPPORTUNITY TO STOP DESTABILISING POLICIES OF IRANIAN REGIME US must now start new diplomatic process to end Iranian military intervention in Syria The Hague, 20 July 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today said that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action […]

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Open letters to the US President in the Washington Post, 4 of 4: Naame Shaam urges President Obama to link Iran nuclear talks with Iranian regime’s intervention in Syria

Open letters to the US President in the Washington Post, 4 of 4: Naame Shaam urges President Obama to link Iran nuclear talks with Iranian regime’s intervention in Syria

The Hague, 1 July 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) yesterday published the fourth and last open letter to US President Barak Obama in the Washington Post newspaper. The letter focuses on the link between Iran’s military nuclear plans and its intervention in Syria and […]

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Open letters to the US president in the Washington Post, 3 of 4: Naame Shaam urges Obama to stop ‘slow bleeding’ policy towards Iran and Hezbollah, save Syria from disintegration

Open letters to the US president in the Washington Post, 3 of 4: Naame Shaam urges Obama to stop ‘slow bleeding’ policy towards Iran and Hezbollah, save Syria from disintegration

Naame Shaam urges Obama to stop ‘slow bleeding’ policy towards Iran and Hezbollah, save Syria from disintegration The Hague, 23 June 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today published the third open letter out of four to the US President in the Washington Post newspaper. […]

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Talk by Naame Shaam’s Campaign Director at Middle East Institute in Washington DC

Talk by Naame Shaam’s Campaign Director at Middle East Institute in Washington DC

The Middle East Institute hosted on 18 May 2015 Naame Shaam’s Campaign’s Director, Fouad Hamdan, for the Washington release of Naame Shaam’s report “Silent Sectarian Cleansing: Iranian Role in Mass Demolitions and Population Transfers in Syria“. Watch Hamdan’s presentation about the report and its findings, followed by […]

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