sentences:  In a 2017 edition of his programme, Ramadan hosted an Iranian analyst who made sympathetic comments concerning President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and said the Arab Spring was a "project put forward by neo-con Zionists".Ramadan was reported not to have countered these assertions.In September 2009, "The Times" reported that Hassan Abdulrahman, born David Theodore Belfield, one of the chief editors of the Press TV website from the beginning of Press TV's news department, had stated that he left Press TV as chief online editor in July 2009 after the election in protest at its skewed coverage of that event.