Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
Posted on 06/19/2018 11:19:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports Hezbollah will not withdraw from western and southwestern borders of Homs with Lebanon as the Russians demanded.
Nasrallah: 'the whole world can not remove us from Syria'
Hezbollah fighters are still stationed in western and southwestern Homs in Syria, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday, and are refusing to comply with a Russian demand to pull away from the Israeli border.
"All that has happened is a media withdrawal," the non-government affiliated organization reported, claiming the Russian forces are deployed in a way that ensures they will not need to come in any contact with Hezbollah fighters.
In a speech delivered in early June, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed that "the whole world can not remove us from Syria."
Lebanese news site Lebanon Debate claimed Russia allegedly stationed Military Police forces on the Syrian-Lebanese border last week near Homs without informing Hezbollah, and that the deployment lead to increased tensions between Russia and Hezbollah for a 24 hour period.
The report further claimed the Russian move was made in coordination with the Syrian army.
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
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A selection of stories from the Arab press this week.
By MEDIA LINE
June 14, 2018
[snip] This meeting marks an important milestone in bilateral relations between the two countries. Most symbolic was the timing of this summit, which came in the wake of Russia’s clash with Iran over the latter’s presence in Syria. The Kremlin already ordered all Iranian troops in Syria to immediately withdraw, as Russian forces begin preparing the Assad regime to take over areas once controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. This change in Russia’s foreign policy would not have been possible without the steadfast Saudi-Emirati commitment to curbing Iran’s involvement in the region. While Moscow and Tehran seemingly had synchronized policies in Syria, the Kremlin now publicly opposes Iran’s presence in the war-torn country. As Moscow increasingly distances itself from Tehran, its ties with Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are growing closer and closer. The recent memorandum on oil production signed between Putin and Prince al-Nahyan is a testament to this changing dynamic. Despite an OPEC-wide decrease in oil production agreed to last year in an effort to curb falling prices, both the Russian and Emirati governments are determined to increase output in their respective countries to stabilize the cost per barrel. [/snip]
Interesting move. Leaves one to wonder what the Russian’s plans are. They are chess players.
“In a speech delivered in early June, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed that “the whole world can not remove us from Syria.”
Won’t need the whole world. Just a green light from Putin, some IAF pilots with time on their hands, and a half hour. Where will they go next? Straight to hell.
Exactly. This has the potential to get very interesting. All fun and games when there is a common adversary. When that adversary has taken its plane and howitzer’s home, then what? Could get very interesting, indeed.
Hezbollah fighters do not represent a country. They are just members of Hezbollah, a sect in Lebanon. They are in Syria because they are being paid to be in Syria. Find out who is financing them and persuade them to stop. Then, no more Hezbollah in Syria. Or, probably, anywhere else, for that matter.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollah-finances-funding-the-party-of-god
Could it be Assad is in the process of deciding who is it’s better friend, Iran or Russia, and feeling maybe it’s Russia?
I think Russia has less designs on Syria as in interfering with Assad than does Iran, and that Iran’s “friendship” with Assad has always been self-serving on the part of the Mullahs of Tehran, to get them closer to Israel. Assad sees that that is leading to confrontations with Israel that he neither wants nor needs. I think, maybe, Israel is getting through to Assad through the Russians.
Quite clear now that Russia is siding with Israel in demanding that the debris leave Syria. Given that this is a Russian demand, the debris would be very smart to comply.
In the same breath, we see Putin with Merkel or Net.
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Nasrallah: 'the whole world can not remove us from Syria' followed by excuse me, I'm going back underground now.
White Queen’s Knight over two to the right and up one square; coupled with her pawns out one, with Kings Bishop and Queen in place to remove the corresponding chess piece from Black Kingdom of Iran!
“They are in Syria because they are being paid to be in Syria. Find out who is financing them and persuade them to stop.”
Better still, just kill all of them! Better, quicker, more permanent solution. The next stop should be Nasrallah’s compound for a “quickie” drone strike. The world for too long has tolerated this camel jockey trash.
SJackson: Nasrallah: 'the whole world can not remove us from Syria' followed by excuse me, I'm going back underground now.
LOL!
Gen.Blather: Hezbollah fighters do not represent a country. They are just members of Hezbollah, a sect in Lebanon. They are in Syria because they are being paid to be in Syria. Find out who is financing them and persuade them to stop. Then, no more Hezbollah in Syria. Or, probably, anywhere else, for that matter.
They are and always have been Iran's proxy in Lebanon, and that's where they get the money and always have.
Wuli: Could it be Assad is in the process of deciding who is it's better friend, Iran or Russia, and feeling maybe it's Russia?
BobL: Quite clear now that Russia is siding with Israel in demanding that the debris leave Syria. Given that this is a Russian demand, the debris would be very smart to comply.
Assad wants everyone out, but wants them to clean up the mess first. He knows he can't survive on his own -- it's obvious, because he can't restore his dictatorship even with the help of Iran, Iran's proxies, Russia, and Turkey, and the better part of ten years. He's young enough to be patient, but if he gets blasted into the afterlife -- something israel could do at will -- it would become a whole different situation for everyone there. In particular Russia will be buried up to the neck, and have no visible allies, and with just three options (turn tail and run; setting up a puppet regime that will then need help expelling Iran and its proxies, and the Turks, and spend years fighting the Kurds; or throw in with the US plan, see below. The third option would require a sweetener).
BBell: Interesting move. Leaves one to wonder what the Russian's plans are. They are chess players.
Putin's looking for a way out, just as Iran was before Putin sent in his thugs. Spanking him as Nasrallah has done makes him look like a sideshow chimp, and he knows it, and he's bound to not like it.
Eleutheria5: Just a green light from Putin, some IAF pilots with time on their hands, and a half hour. Where will they go next? Straight to hell.
Putin's got worse things to worry about, such as declining arms sales in the area of air defenses, or the IAF killing of Assad and end of his regime. While it would satisfying to see Nasrallah and his bunker blow sky-high, right now it will be of more benefit to leave the a-hole alive.
qaz123: This has the potential to get very interesting. All fun and games when there is a common adversary. When that adversary has taken its plane and howitzer's home, then what? Could get very interesting, indeed.
Sacajaweau: In reality, Iran has no friends. And Turkey has messed up their country royally. Who knows. In the same breath, we see Putin with Merkel or Net.
Their alliance is not dissimilar to the Molotov-VonRibbentrop agreement to divide Poland. They make plans on their own, they meet and disagree, then carry out the parts of their respective plans that they can implement without pissing off the others. Assad is not consulted about any of it.
Putin will continue to finance the Russian presence with arms sales (to all sides throughout the world) and Gazprom pipelines. The last thing he needs is a peaceful settlement and a natural gas pipeline from the Gulf states, across Jordan and Syria, through Turkey, and into the European market.
Instead, the pipeline will now go through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, and undersea to Greece and the rest of Europe, picking up the gas production from Cyprus on the way through.
Jumper: White Queen's Knight over two to the right and up one square; coupled with her pawns out one, with Kings Bishop and Queen in place to remove the corresponding chess piece from Black Kingdom of Iran!
Just in time for the Yes50 tour!
vette6387: Better still, just kill all of them! Better, quicker, more permanent solution. The next stop should be Nasrallah's compound for a “quickie” drone strike. The world for too long has tolerated this camel jockey trash.
It's apparent that they're doing that for us. The peace deal between Israel and the Arabian states will probably bring about a lot of self-inflicted wounds, or rather, even more than usual.
“Putin’s got worse things to worry about, such as declining arms sales in the area of air defenses, or the IAF killing of Assad and end of his regime. While it would satisfying to see Nasrallah and his bunker blow sky-high, right now it will be of more benefit to leave the a-hole alive.”
So he needn’t worry about Hizbollah anymore. All we need is a green light from him, delivered on the QT, and after that he can read about it in the papers.
There's no motivation to do that just now. Since it would benefit Putin, Putin will have to give something of benefit to Israel -- and in advance.
Taking out Hizbollah would ipso facto benefit Israel. We’d need nothing from Putin except his covert OK to operate in his turf, Syria. And he wants them gone, too. I don’t see your reasoning.
Russia has adjusted its behavior to the Trump era. They do well to know their place and quit messing with Israel.
Hezbollah's not the largest threat to Israel, and Israel currently has leverage that will be gone (for a short while) if it destroys the Hezbollah bunkers. There's no rush to get that done, unless Hezbollah acts first. If that happens, the bunkers go, then Russia will have to get rid of the Iranian infestation or else.
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