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The Russian move halted an attempt to storm the enclave by pro-Iranian army units led by the elite Fourth Division who hold sway in the region and had in recent days tightened a two-month siege, escalating shelling and pushing for a military offensive.
The Syrian army, aided by Russian air power and Iranian militias, in 2018 retook control of the province of which Deraa is the capital and which borders Jordan and Israel’s Golan Heights.
That deal forced thousands of mainstream Western-backed rebels to hand over heavy weapons but kept the army from entering the bastion known as Deraa al Balaad.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
Moscow gave guarantees to Israel and Washington in 2018 that it would hold back Iranian-backed militias from expanding their influence in the strategic region.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had earlier this month condemned what he termed the "Assad regime’s brutal" assault on Deraa and called for an immediate end to violence "that killed civilians and displaced thousands."
Over 50,000 civilians along with several thousand former rebels lived in the stronghold that was the site of the first peaceful protests against the Assad family rule, which were met by force before spreading across the country.
The area has now become a ghost town after weeks of intermittent fighting and shelling during which the army has prevented food, medical and fuel supplies coming in but opened a corridor for civilians to leave, residents and local officials say.
The enclave and other towns in southern Syria have, since the state regained control of the province, held sporadic protests against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
’s authoritarian rule that are rare in areas under state control.
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Dozens of regimes and gangs back siege of Daraa: Military analyst
[NPASYRIA] The military build-up brought in to the vicinity of Daraa are the gangs of Putin, Assad and Khamenei, said As’ad al-Zou’bi, an opposition military analyst, on Thursday.
Over the past two days, the Iranian-backed militias have sent more reinforcements to the vicinity of Daraa al Balad and the besieged neighborhoods. These reinforcements included heavy equipment like tanks, armored vehicles and the 57 artillery. They also included a big number of members, according to local sources.
Al-Zou’bi added that "there are dozens of regimes and gangs that back these reinforcements," considering that the coming days will witness "the Great Battle of al Sham".
"There is no solution looming on the horizon, and the situation will develop. There will be interference and unexpected reactions. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the stand of all the residents of Daraa together will be the last word," he noted.
Russia sees Daraa as the final and most important step in its plan of supporting the Syrian government. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
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Iranis a cognate form of
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IRGCis the same idea as
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Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
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views the southern governorate as the most important step to start with in order to achieve its Persian goal, "to which unfortunately Arabs have not yet realized its danger," according to the military analyst.
Al-Zou’bi attributed the reason for Iran’s delay in controlling southern Syria to the "disagreement over the distribution of quotas between the three gangs."
The Iranian-backed militias continue its semi-ongoing targeting the besieged neighborhoods in Daraa governorate: Daraa al-Balad, Tariq al-Sad neighborhood and camps).
For more than two months, the government forces and pro-Iranian factions have besieged the neighborhoods of Daraa al-Balad and closed most of the roads to them.
"Iran’s goal is clear: to bring about complete demographic change in the region. The plan is dangerous and the objectives are profound, but we are still far from understanding these plans," al-Zou’bi stated.