Baladi News – (Mona Ali)
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia will deploy troops in the northern Syrian region of Idlib in the framework of a "tension-easing" deal brokered by Moscow last month, the Turkish presidential spokesman said on Thursday.
The tension zones agreed by Turkey, Russia and Iran will be subject to further discussion during negotiations in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan, in early July, the Khabar Turk television station quoted Ibrahim Kalin as saying.
"We will be very present in the Idlib region with the Russians, and mostly Russia and Iran will be around Damascus and a mechanism is being prepared to include Americans and Jordan in the south in the Daraa area," Kalin said, adding that Russia had also proposed sending troops from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Arab media have begun to promote the idea of "Islamic forces", based on the presence of troops from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, ignoring that if the forces are deployed, their presence will be symbolic, not to mention that the two countries are fully subservient to Moscow.
Drawing the borders of the four "de-escalation" zones, identifying the forces responsible for their protection and monitoring of the cease-fire were scheduled for June 4, but Russia postponed them until the 12th of it before another postponement until July 5 in order to give the regime and the Iranian militias the opportunity to capture Daraa, which have so far failed despite the unprecedented barbaric campaign on the city under the "de-escalation" plan.
The deployment of troops, which was talked about by the Turkish official spokesman, involves a great risk to Syrians, where the Turkish presence will be confined to Idlib, while Russian and Iranian forces will surround Damascus to subdue and suffocate the eastern Ghouta and the adjacent neighborhoods with siege instead of besieging the regime. These forces will be tasked with “the monitoring and supervision of humanitarian crossings, and thus Russia and Iran will control the fate of the eastern Ghouta and Jubar, and will certainly find the means to justify their starvation under the pretext of" combating terrorism, "according to analysts.
As for Daraa, information about ongoing US-Russian-Jordanian consultations were leaked, which were concluded with the decision to divide the province between the armed opposition and the regime and grant the regime Ramtha crossing as well as a symbolic presence in governmental departments and institutions as a "symbolic victory." According to the plan, US and Jordanian, and possibly Russian, forces will be oversee the region, which means that the agreement took into account the interests of Jordan to keeping Iran from its borders, while completely ignoring the interests of the Syrians victors in the battle of Daraa. The Israeli interests in that region cannot also be ignored despite the absence of media, as Washington policy is based on the preservation of the interests of "Israel" on behalf of Tel Aviv.
It is clear that the agreement legitimizes the presence of occupying forces on the Syrian territories. It also blocks the way for the United Nations, which, according to the Geneva negotiations, was to send international forces (blue hats) to separate and supervise the safe zones, which is a fairly acceptable guarantee for Syrians.
The Syrian question: If the famous Srebrenica massacre in which thousands of Muslims were killed in 1995 by the Serbs took place in front of the international forces at that time, and with their collusion as some say, how can more horrific massacres by Russian and Iranian forces be prevented, especially since the pretext of "fighting terrorism" is ready to appear at the time of request!