Iran should be denied any military presence in Syria

The Pentagon on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to carry out an offensive against Kurdish-led forces backed by the United States that control the country’s north-east.

Syria’s Bashar Assad has vowed to retake territories held by the PKK-affiliated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is backed by the US, through force if diplomatic options failed.

Israeli officials view a United States withdrawal with trepidation, as they consider the American presence there to be a buffer, preventing Iranian forces in Iraq and Syria from joining hands.

He added that direct conflict between his ally Russian Federation and the United States in Syria had only been narrowly avoided.

“Next week I am going to Germany, France and Britain”, he said Wednesday in Tel Aviv.

Israel and Iran recently used back channels to reach ‎behind-the-scenes understandings over Syrian ‎maneuvers in the southern Golan Heights, Saudi media ‎reported Sunday.‎.

He said that the claims of chemical weapons use by the rebels and their Western backers are part of the desperate measures undertaken by the West to prolong the war as the conflict is getting closer to an end with the Syrian army determining to recapture all rebel-held areas in Syria. “Based on the current situation, the regime can not claim any stable victory”, Hariri said.

Assad admitted that there are Iranian officials “working with the Syrian army and offering help”.

Earlier in May, U.S. President Donald Trump walked away from the 2015 worldwide nuclear accord under which world powers lifted some economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its disputed atomic energy program.

“Our position on Syria is clear”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his parliamentary faction in broadcast remarks.

Turkey also says the USA should drop its support to the SDF, which is mainly established by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian arm of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to Ankara.

Forces loyal to Assad and the Syrian Kurds have clashed sporadically over the eastern oil province of Deir el-Zour.

Take a cursory look at the bleeding mass of blood and population displacement that is Syria today, and you could be forgiven for thinking that this is the country where diplomacy goes to die.

“Thankfully, it has been averted, not by the knowledge of the American management, however by the knowledge of the Russian management”.

The Moscow meeting was also attended by the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Before attacking any other military base it was the air defense… “People will not accept foreigners in this region anymore”, Assad added.

Israel, which is deeply alarmed by Tehran’s influence in Syria, earlier this month said it destroyed dozens of Iranian military sites in Syria, after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time.