Tehran’s provide to Damascus comes amid a jihadist offensive in opposition to authorities forces
Tehran would think about a full navy deployment to assist Syria if the federal government in Damascus requests it, Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi has mentioned.
The feedback got here throughout an inteview that Araghchi gave to the Qatar-based outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed on his method again from Türkiye on Monday night.
“If the Syrian authorities asks Iran to ship troops to Syria, we are going to think about the request,” Araghchi was quoted as saying.
Tehran is getting ready “a sequence of steps to calm the state of affairs in Syria and discover a chance to current an initiative for a everlasting answer,” he added.
Militants of al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) and different Islamist teams launched a large-scale offensive from Idlib province in direction of Aleppo, Hama and Homs final week. Idlib has been below Turkish safety since a ceasefire negotiated with Russia in 2020.
The enlargement of those terrorist teams “might hurt Syria’s neighboring international locations corresponding to Iraq, Jordan, and Türkiye greater than Iran,” Araghchi advised the Qatari outlet.
Tehran is prepared to “seek the advice of and dialogue” with Ankara to bridge their variations, Araghchi famous, however mentioned that Iran calls for a withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syria earlier than any assembly between their presidents can happen. In keeping with the Iranian overseas minister, this can be a “cheap” request.
Iran is “involved in regards to the collapse of the Astana course of in Syria, as a result of there isn’t a simple different to it,” in accordance with Araghchi. This was a reference to the deal signed in 2017 within the capital of Kazakhstan, through which the governments in Damascus, Ankara, Tehran, and Moscow pledged to work on resolving the Syrian battle peacefully.
Araghchi additionally mentioned he supposed to go to Moscow to debate the state of affairs in Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has mentioned that Ankara helps “Syria’s territorial integrity and nationwide unity” however that ending the battle required a “consensus in step with the official calls for of the Syrian folks.” His overseas minister, Hakan Fidan, mentioned on Monday that the hostilities resumed as a result of Damascus ignored the “official calls for of the opposition.”
In the meantime, Russia has reiterated its assist for Syrian President Bashar Assad and the federal government in Damascus.
The Russian expeditionary power, deployed to Syria in 2015 to assist Damascus battle in opposition to Islamic State (IS, also referred to as ISIS) terrorists, has carried out a sequence of airstrikes in opposition to the attacking jihadists in assist of the Syrian military.
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