On Sep. 8, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that there had been a meeting between leaders of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Hizb ut-Tahrir (Turkistan Islamic Party) and the White Helmets. According to the ministry, “Scenarios for staging and filming of incidents with the alleged use of chemical agents by the Syrian government forces against civilians” were discussed.
“A special team of some “foreign friends of the Syrian revolution” will give a signal for the start of the provocation in Idlib province,” the ministry warned on Twitter.
And today’s news is that Assad has approved using chemical weapons again. Sounds fishy to me.
“The Zionist regime … cannot be seen as an aspiring fighter against terrorism. … The occupant regime of Israel should immediately leave occupied Syrian territories,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said.
Neither the US nor Israel will allow Iran to threaten Israel. Iran's language about Israel being occupiers of Israel? is of course totally insane.
I do agree with you that the chemical weapons being “authorized” by Assad does sound fishy.
Remember, chem weapons kill people (and animals) and largely leave physical surrounding untouched. But kill all human life often those not actually targeted.
Erdogan said, “We know that within the Astana meetings our interests have converged on major directions. … With this in mind and with lives and blood of our soldiers in Jarablus, al-Bab and Afrin we cleaned the territory of terrorists. Syrian lands have been provided with peace and calm and by this we sought to create conditions for return of refugees.”