Susli began writing and speaking on the Syrian civil war in 2012.[13] Susli said she speaks out against Syrian rebels, the Islamic State, and the United States after becoming dismayed at seeing her country destroyed. One of her YouTube videos, "If Syria Disarms Chemical Weapons We Lose the War", was viewed 44,720 times by October 2014.[13] Jordanian news outlet Al Bawaba described Susli's support for Assad's government: "Susli's conviction that the best and only future for the Syrian people can exist with Bashar Al Assad at the helm, flanked by his Russian and Iranian allies, is dispiriting."[9] In a 2013 interview on RT with Abby Martin in as Mimi al Laham, Susli said that it would be a "grave mistake" for Assad to renounce chemical weapons.[17] In addition to RT, Susli is a contributor to the Iranian Press TV,[8] and New Eastern Outlook.[14] She is a supporter of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party,[20] has denied the use of chemical weapons by Assad’s forces in the Syrian Civil War, and, according to Bellingcat, "promoted pro-regime propaganda".[10]
In 2014, News Corp Australia Network said Susli was a "self-described News Personality" whose Facebook page is "filled with video posts on the current conflict, criticising IS and Syrian rebels".[22] She has denied the allegations of atrocities and war crimes against the Assad government.[5][23] That same year, Susli told MailOnline: "People are dying, and I have a duty as a human being and as someone of Syrian origin to expose the truth about why."[24]
In 2017, along with Theodore Postol, Susli rejected claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in 2017 at Khan Shaykhun.[5] In a YouTube video, she referred to evidence posted by Postol, suggesting that Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, alleged to have killed 74 people, was not the work of the Syrian government.[5][23] While interviewing Seymour Hersh for Prospect, Steve Bloomfield said that Postol "spoke about how he relies for his work on Syria on ... Susli", to which Hersh replied: "He talked to her once on one thing."[25] In an article for InfoWars, Susli said the White Helmets, the first responder group, had been responsible for the Khan Shaykhun attack.[5]Cheryl Rofer, a chemical weapons expert consulted by Bellingcat, said that Postol's reliance on Susli for chemical advice was seriously flawed.[26]
After the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury, England, in March 2018, Susli's Twitter account posted 2,300 times over a 12-day period, accessed by 61 million users.[27] Analysts from the British government briefed selected journalists that they had concluded Susli's twitter account (@partisangirl) was "suspicious and part of a broader disinformation campaign".[28]The Guardian then described her account as being a "Russian bot"; it subsequently changed its article by substituting "account" for "bot".[27] In response, Susli said: "I am not a robot; I am a human being."[28] Susli also declared, “I am human. I am not a machine! I bleed red.” A fact check by Channel 4 concluded that Susli is a "real individual", remarking that Twitter had issued her account with a verification tick confirming the account is authentic and that the claim that her account is a bot "controlled directly by the Kremlin, appears to be false".[28]
In an interview with Alex Jones on InfoWars, following the Ghouta chemical attack of August 2013, she implied the rebels were responsible for the massacre. Susli said the Syrian government was a corrupt dictatorship and that there was "a legitimate reason for people to want to create ... change". She stated that the United States and NATO used the anger of the Syrian people to serve their own agendas.[12][30] At the time she had thousands of subscribers, which weren't verified.[31]
In a 2014 Vice interview, she said she wanted Syria to "remain secular, united and strong" and did not "tolerate foreigners destroying our way of life, forcing us to live a certain way. Whether it's ISIS or the US government".[13] In an interview with The Daily Beast that same year, Susli said that she does not support President Bashar al-Assad or associates of the Syrian Ba'ath party. According to the website, she said this "[d]espite her trolling over Assad's enemies, despite her appearances on Assad-friendly media outlets, and despite her connections to pro-Assad hackers."[8][better source needed] In one video, she said groups like the "New World Order" have targeted Assad's Syria because it doesn't allow genetically modified crops and lacks "a Rothschild central bank".[8][better source needed] According to The Daily Beast, Susli said the Houla massacre in 2012 was the work of British intelligence.[8][better source needed]
^ abcdefMonbiot, George (15 November 2017). "A lesson from Syria: it's crucial not to fuel far-right conspiracy theories". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2019. The story was then embellished on Infowars – the notorious far-right conspiracy forum. The Infowars article claimed that the attack was staged by the Syrian first responder group, the White Helmets. This is a reiteration of a repeatedly discredited conspiracy theory, casting these rescuers in the role of perpetrators. It suggested that the victims were people who had been kidnapped by al-Qaida from a nearby city, brought to Khan Shaykhun and murdered, perhaps with the help of the UK and French governments, 'to lay blame on the Syrian government'. The author of this article was Mimi Al-Laham, also known as Maram Susli.
^Cullotty, Eileen (2020). "Conspiracy and the epistemological challenges of mediatized conflict". In O'Loughlin, Ben; Parry, Katy; Rousell, Laura; Maltby, Sarah (eds.). Spaces of War, War of Spaces. Bloomsbury.
^ abcdefghijkSchachtman, Noah; Kennedy, Michael (17 October 2014). "The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 25 October 2018. It's little wonder that Susli found her way into [Alex] Jones' orbit as conspiracies lie at the heart of her worldview, if her comments on social media are any indication. According to her, 9/11 was an 'inside job.' al Qaeda and ISIS, by her telling, don't exist in the form they've been presented to the global public. First off, they're one in the same. Second, they're a CIA front—hence the use of 'ALCIAda,' a favorite portmanteau.
^ abHilsman, Patrick (29 December 2016). "Down the Alt-Right's Syrian Rabbit Hole". Pulse. Retrieved 17 September 2020. The Assad regime had a relationship with the American far-right long before Susli's appearances on InfoWars. ... [Speaking to Alex Jones, Susli said:] 'I'm not gonna come here and deny that the government wasn't a dictatorship, it wasn't corrupt, that, you know, that people weren't angry with it. I'm not gonna say that there wasn't a legitimate reason for people to want to create that change but the fact is that was totally exploited and even pre planned by the foreign agendas, the US, NATO, basically the global elite as you call them'. ... [Regarding the Ghouta chemical attack she said:] 'It's absolutely undeniable that little children died in Damascus three days ago and that the images are shocking and anyone cannot deny that ... and I also don't want to implicate the rebels as a whole. ... I don't want to implicate them directly because I'm sure some of them have families that live in that area and I believe that they themselves are pasties to a global game that they are cannon fodder for and the powers that be have managed to convince them that they are going to get armed that they are going to get no fly zones ...they want to divide Syria up into mini states and they wanna crush any rogue state'.
