Posted on 07/31/2018 8:06:53 AM PDT by mac_truck
Russias ambassador to Israel said in an interview Monday his country cannot force Iranian forces to withdraw from Syria, despite Israeli calls for Iran to withdraw from the country.
Speaking with Channel 10 news, Anatoly Viktorov said the Iranians are playing a very, very important role in our common and joint efforts to eliminate terrorists in Syria.
Viktorov said Russia can talk to its Iranian friends about a full withdrawal from Syria, as Israel demands, but we cannot force them.
The Iranian presence in Syria is fully legitimate according to the UN principles and the UN charter, he added.
He also did not confirm Israeli officials statement to the effect that Moscow offered to keep Iran at a distance of 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the border, though he implied that Russia will not oppose continued Israeli airstrikes on Iranian bases in the country
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Russia is imprisoning, kidnapping and torturing their own recruits in Donbas... oh yeah, the Russian press says this, no where in the West is saying this.
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/07/30/77341-chuzhie-sredi-svoih
Russia can be happy with their fast food workers making more than Doctors. Yeah, that was in the Russian press too.
Not quite the superpower they used to be, are they?
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There is nothing legitimate about UN principles nor the UN charter.
The UN is not a nation, thus our “treaty” with them is null and void under our constitution.
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Probably can't force them out.
Gee, old Soviet “Borscht and bullshit” in Israel. Nothing changes.
We, Russia, will arm and fund Iran but we can’t control them.
That’s like Red China saying we arm and feed and protect No. Korea but we can’t control them.
The Russian can control whoever they want to if they are there in the neighborhood. What’s Iran going to do, defeat Russia with an army of Moslem fanatics on the ground. Chechnya should be the lesson to look at when watching Russian ruthless determination in action.
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