Syria announces clandestine cells dismantled for preparing assasination of top government officials
Explosives and weapons seized, 11 people detained
Syria was the only ally of Iran and Russia in the region. They have literally no other ally.
The overwhelming majority of Syrians despise the Assad family. I have yet to meet a single Syrian who likes him or respects him. When people protested against Assad, he started kill. Protests turned into an armed uprising. Bachar El Assad was in real trouble, so he called his allies for help. Iran and Russia.
The Iranian fought for him. They sent shia militias to fight for him. Putin bombed entires cities.
500,000 people were killed. 10 million Syrian fled the country. But the Syrian people didn’t give up. At the end of the day, they still won.
Now, Bachar El Assad and his cronies live in exile in Moscow. They stole billions of dollars that they can use to destabilize the country. And the Iranian are enraged. They lost their only ally. Their attitude is now "If we can’t have it, we can break it"
Believe it or not, an ex-terrorist puppet is not fit to run a government. I see no world in which Syrians have dignity, as part of their country is being occupied and the new rulers are ok with it. If Syria ever establishes a democracy, the first issue will be liberating occupied territory.
Nobody wants to replace the tyrannical Baathist regime with a western puppet, but this seems to be the case. I don’t expect this government to hold onto power long, as they are quickly making themselves enemies of the public.
If we ever get a democracy it will:
A- Need a shit ton of time because most people are not politically aware
B- Isreal would glass our ass before that becomes a thing
And FWIW most people are happy that the majority Sunni are in charge regardless of their actions, makes you wonder…
Dude is closer to Saudi Arabia and Turkey than to the West
This dude has his fair share of war crimes. He didn’t fought against the bloody regime just to save Syrian civilians but to serve Israel, the USA and turkey interests
This is ridiculous. I’m no expert on Syria that shit is bananas complicated.
But a guy aspiring to get closer to gulf states along with Israel, France, the US and Turkey is not a good guy. He’s also literally al qaeda.
Assad ain’t good. But weapons and support flowed through Syria to hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance during his government. Objectively a good thing.
Thanks for pointing out the realpolitik of Assad’s Syria vs CIA/ISIS-controlled Syria re: the axis of resistance.
Not an expert, that civil war has way too much going on. Acting like Jolani is the good guy is… I really can’t think of a worse set of characteristics.
Iranian propaganda described as a crazy terrorist but turns out he is a ruthless pragmatic. He put on a suit and was welcomed by Macron and Trump. He promised to protect minorities. He allowed a dance festival. He even invited Jews to pray in Damascus.
His group war crimes are well documented , it is not merely an Iran propaganda point
Also don’t you find weird that he want a good relation with Russia and Israel who is occupying big chunk of Syria right now and breached Syrian sovereignty by killing Syrian under pretext of protecting the Druze?
He allowed a dance festival. He even invited Jews to pray in Damascus.
You got easily tricked right?
https://www.newarab.com/news/sharaa-comments-backlash-over-damascus-sexy-dance-routine
Sharaa said he had directed authorities to ensure future national events are “linked to the customs and culture of Syria”.
The new government is just another dictatorship but with a different coat of paint.
Syria went from a pseudo monarchy to an Islamic Vanguard Oligarchy, with the overtures to non-Suni Arab communities not out of a sense of wanting pluralism Democratic power but as crumbs to keep those communities from rebelling.
