“Zarif claimed that the same parties who armed Daesh have also armed the Syrian opposition.
“You had a group in Syria that was armed and equipped and financed by outside forces,” Zarif stated in an interview with CNN on Friday. “Mistakes were made in the beginning, but the worst mistake of all was to arm a group of terrorists who are not only a threat to Syria, but a threat globally.”
The foreign minister clarified his statement by saying was referring to a “group of countries, which the United States calls allies, plus the United States itself.”
Commenting on the possible deployment of US ground troops to Syria, Zarif said that the move could further inflate the threat of growing terrorism in the region.
“The presence of foreign troops in an Arab territory, against a wish of the government and the people of those territories, is itself a recipe for these demagogues, these extremists to rally behind, and to gain new support, and to recruit new fighters,” Zarif stated in an interview aired on CNN Friday.”
“On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the administration of President Donald Trump is reportedly working to create a military alliance of Sunni Arab nations that cooperate with the United States and Israel on sharing intelligence to oppose the growing regional influence of Iran.
“A US-Arab alliance against Iran is very bad on any number of levels,” Middle East analyst and political commentator Dan Lazare said on Friday. “As reactionary as the Iranian regime is, it’s a far cry better than the oil monarchies that are America’s closest allies in the region.”
“Not only is Washington unjust and immoral in backing such a crusade, but it is also self-defeating since it is backing what is plainly the losing side. Saudi Arabia is today the sick man of the Middle East. Its economy is failing, its political system is profoundly dysfunctional,” he explained.
Although the United States routinely accuses Tehran of sponsoring terrorism, the charge stands reality on its head, Lazare argued.
Iran “is actually a leading force in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon,” he noted.”
That israeli now total control of the usa will make sure their pence regime quislings continue to fight israel’s wars for them.
“In an interview with Sputnik Arabic, the General Secretary of the opposition of Syrian Forces Union, Fajr Zeidan, said that Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to secure the US leader’s support for Israel’s claim to the strategic Golan Heights, a Syrian territory Israel has occupied since 1967.
If Trump throws his weight behind Israel’s claim, this would effectively kill the peace process in Syria.
The United States recently joined the search for an early end to the crisis, but if it recognizes Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights, this process would inevitably grind to a halt.”
Is that the next zionazi plan to throw a wrench in the peace negotiations and keep their war against Syria going.
“The Amnesty International report accusing the Syrian government of carrying out mass executions at a prison near Damascus is part of an information campaign targeted against President Bashar al-Assad and aimed at undermining his diplomatic efforts, journalist and expert on the Middle East Karin Leukefeld told Sputnik Germany.
The report should be viewed in the context of an information campaign targeted against the Syrian government and Russia, Leukefeld added. The journalist is convinced that this campaign was designed to force President Bashar al-Assad and his government to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) by influencing public opinion and the media.
In Leukefeld’s opinion, such campaigns have undermined, if not torpedoed Damascus’s efforts aimed at bringing peace to Syria.”
“Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Pence said, “The United States will continue to hold Russia accountable, even as we search for new common ground, which as you know, President Trump believes can be found.”
Pence praised NATO’s new military deployments in Poland and the Baltic states in the wake of what he called “Russia’s efforts to redraw international borders by force,” in an apparent reference to the 2014 reunification with Crimea.
Pence’s statement drew an immediate reaction from the head of Russia’s upper house Committee for International Relations. It’s not an “appropriate assessment of the situation in southeastern Ukraine, and adds no value to the peace process,” Konstantin Kosachev told the media.
“Mr Pence mentioned Russia twice, but one time in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, just repeating the ‘annexation of Crimea’ position and laying the responsibility for the implementation of the Minsk agreements purely on Russia – which is a dead end, it does not lead us anywhere,” Kosachev later told RT at the Munich Security Conference.
“And [the second time] through his repetition of the position of Mr Trump which we heard before, which is that America is ready to normalize relations with Russia, does not lead us anywhere either because it does not contain any further concrete proposals.”
Regarding Iran, the pence regime doesn’t even pretend they are not israel’s quislings:
“Under President Trump, the United States will remain fully committed to ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon capable of threatening our countries, our allies in the region, especially Israel,” he said.
Trump also appears to have aligned himself with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in several aspects of his Middle Eastern policy, including what seems to be a shared outlook on Iran.”
“IDs, academic certificates, birth certificates, marriage or divorce certificates, documents evidencing name changes, death certificates, transport registration certificates, and vehicle license plates, issued by corresponding local authorities to permanent residents of these regions who are citizens of Ukraine or are stateless, are hereby declared valid,” the statement read.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a fateful decision… This is another sign that the republic has achieved statehood. Today we made a step closer toward international recognition of our sovereignty,” Igor Plotnitsky said in a statement circulated by the Lugansk information center.”
“Lavrov said this issue had not been brought up during foreign ministers’ talks in the so-called Normandy Four format in Munich.
“The decree stated clearly this was made out of humanitarian concerns…until Minsk agreements have been fulfilled. The presidential decree validated IDs of Donbass residents so that they could enter Russia legally and use Russian rail transport and air carriers,” he explained.”
“Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko slammed the decision, calling it “another proof of Russian occupation.” After having spoken with the US Vice President Mike Pence on the fringes of the Munich conference, the Ukrainian leader accused Moscow of “violating international law” with its latest decree.
Kiev “vigorously condemns” and does not recognize the Russian decree, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Having accused Russia of “violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” the ministry claimed the decision on the documents was a “de facto recognition of illegal authorities in Donbass.”
After porkshank speaks to pence, he makes his inflammatory accusations. Obviously porkshank is repeating what pence instructed him to say and it is pence who is deliberately stoking this anti Russia propaganda. This is a continuation of the zionazi war against Russia, through the Ukraine, without interruption, with the tuppence regime following on the obama regime with no substantial changes.
Note pence taking the reins unilaterally here. This provides further evidence, I think, that pence is the “general manger” of the tuppence regime, at the very least, in foreign policy decisions.
B Spear, in a nutshell the border between Syria and Lebanon is safer now than anytime after 2011. The border from Sheeba farms (lebanon-Syria-occupied Golan) all the way to the northern Qalamoun (Arsal in Lebanon-Qarah in Syria axis) is completely rat free and constant patrolling by Hizballah, NDF and near Arsal Lebanese Army.
A group of mixed terrorists (rivals) are up in the mountains of northern Qalamoun in caves basically, they hold no villages at this point.
The mix bag of rats are ISIS, al Qaeda affiliates and some smaller groups of moderats. They all kill each other and have low numbers to make any problem to Syria at the moment.
They are basically acting as traditional gang/terrorists/smugglers, they kidnap people, steal stuff and harass villages nearby but without the strength to fight serious forces.
There are folks questioning why the allied forces do not eradicate them all from the mountains, the answer seems that it does not worth it to sacrifice good soldiers in gaining rocks when this terrorists have limit possibility to inflict damages to both sides of the border. It has been a war of attrition for basically the past two years with rare attempts to larger engagement (last one was when ISIS was advancing toward Mahin-Sadad axis in 2015 prior to Russia’s arrival in Syria.
The southern Qualamoun pocket recently liberated after Barada Vally deal and the latest Serghayh basically eliminated the last sizeable pocket at the border, though they were isolated in few pockets they were a pain in the neck for the SAA due to the proximity of the capital and vital roads in and out from Lebanon. This victory is very important and East Ghouta will no longer be the same after that.
Israhell is very concerned about a rat free border, they know the roads, villages and the several missile sites are safe again for Hizballah and Syria to use against Israhell when the time is ripe and the weapon exchange will intensify.
Expect more Israhell air strikes in southern Qalamoun from now onwards and it could have responses once and while from Syria and Hizballah, it will be interesting when a Israhelli jet is shot down with the new defense systems under Hizballah.
Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif Names US ‘Worst Mistake’ in Syria
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201702181050811256-iran-zarif-syria-worst-mistake/
“Zarif claimed that the same parties who armed Daesh have also armed the Syrian opposition.
“You had a group in Syria that was armed and equipped and financed by outside forces,” Zarif stated in an interview with CNN on Friday. “Mistakes were made in the beginning, but the worst mistake of all was to arm a group of terrorists who are not only a threat to Syria, but a threat globally.”
The foreign minister clarified his statement by saying was referring to a “group of countries, which the United States calls allies, plus the United States itself.”
Commenting on the possible deployment of US ground troops to Syria, Zarif said that the move could further inflate the threat of growing terrorism in the region.
“The presence of foreign troops in an Arab territory, against a wish of the government and the people of those territories, is itself a recipe for these demagogues, these extremists to rally behind, and to gain new support, and to recruit new fighters,” Zarif stated in an interview aired on CNN Friday.”
‘Bad at Any Level’: Anti-Iran Bloc May Boost Most Repressive Regimes in Mideast
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201702181050810913-anti-iran-bloc-repressive-regimes/
“On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the administration of President Donald Trump is reportedly working to create a military alliance of Sunni Arab nations that cooperate with the United States and Israel on sharing intelligence to oppose the growing regional influence of Iran.
“A US-Arab alliance against Iran is very bad on any number of levels,” Middle East analyst and political commentator Dan Lazare said on Friday. “As reactionary as the Iranian regime is, it’s a far cry better than the oil monarchies that are America’s closest allies in the region.”
“Not only is Washington unjust and immoral in backing such a crusade, but it is also self-defeating since it is backing what is plainly the losing side. Saudi Arabia is today the sick man of the Middle East. Its economy is failing, its political system is profoundly dysfunctional,” he explained.
Although the United States routinely accuses Tehran of sponsoring terrorism, the charge stands reality on its head, Lazare argued.
Iran “is actually a leading force in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon,” he noted.”
That israeli now total control of the usa will make sure their pence regime quislings continue to fight israel’s wars for them.
How Territorial Dispute With Israel Could ‘Kill the Peace Process in Syria’
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201702181050817788-israel-golans-dispute/
“In an interview with Sputnik Arabic, the General Secretary of the opposition of Syrian Forces Union, Fajr Zeidan, said that Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to secure the US leader’s support for Israel’s claim to the strategic Golan Heights, a Syrian territory Israel has occupied since 1967.
If Trump throws his weight behind Israel’s claim, this would effectively kill the peace process in Syria.
The United States recently joined the search for an early end to the crisis, but if it recognizes Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights, this process would inevitably grind to a halt.”
Is that the next zionazi plan to throw a wrench in the peace negotiations and keep their war against Syria going.
Amnesty International Report on Syria ‘Part of Campaign Targeted Against Assad’
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702181050816853-amnesty-report-syria-assad/
“The Amnesty International report accusing the Syrian government of carrying out mass executions at a prison near Damascus is part of an information campaign targeted against President Bashar al-Assad and aimed at undermining his diplomatic efforts, journalist and expert on the Middle East Karin Leukefeld told Sputnik Germany.
The report should be viewed in the context of an information campaign targeted against the Syrian government and Russia, Leukefeld added. The journalist is convinced that this campaign was designed to force President Bashar al-Assad and his government to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) by influencing public opinion and the media.
In Leukefeld’s opinion, such campaigns have undermined, if not torpedoed Damascus’s efforts aimed at bringing peace to Syria.”
The pence regime reiterates it actual hostile approach to Russia (as opposed to regime spokesman trump’s shallow talk of bettering relations).
US will hold Russia accountable over Ukraine while searching for common ground – Pence
https://www.rt.com/usa/377791-pence-trump-iran-nuclear/
“Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Pence said, “The United States will continue to hold Russia accountable, even as we search for new common ground, which as you know, President Trump believes can be found.”
Pence praised NATO’s new military deployments in Poland and the Baltic states in the wake of what he called “Russia’s efforts to redraw international borders by force,” in an apparent reference to the 2014 reunification with Crimea.
Pence’s statement drew an immediate reaction from the head of Russia’s upper house Committee for International Relations. It’s not an “appropriate assessment of the situation in southeastern Ukraine, and adds no value to the peace process,” Konstantin Kosachev told the media.
“Mr Pence mentioned Russia twice, but one time in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, just repeating the ‘annexation of Crimea’ position and laying the responsibility for the implementation of the Minsk agreements purely on Russia – which is a dead end, it does not lead us anywhere,” Kosachev later told RT at the Munich Security Conference.
“And [the second time] through his repetition of the position of Mr Trump which we heard before, which is that America is ready to normalize relations with Russia, does not lead us anywhere either because it does not contain any further concrete proposals.”
Regarding Iran, the pence regime doesn’t even pretend they are not israel’s quislings:
“Under President Trump, the United States will remain fully committed to ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon capable of threatening our countries, our allies in the region, especially Israel,” he said.
Trump also appears to have aligned himself with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in several aspects of his Middle Eastern policy, including what seems to be a shared outlook on Iran.”
Putin’s Decree Declares Donetsk, Lugansk Residents’ Docs Valid in Russia
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201702181050821741-putin-donetsk-lugansk-documents/
“IDs, academic certificates, birth certificates, marriage or divorce certificates, documents evidencing name changes, death certificates, transport registration certificates, and vehicle license plates, issued by corresponding local authorities to permanent residents of these regions who are citizens of Ukraine or are stateless, are hereby declared valid,” the statement read.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a fateful decision… This is another sign that the republic has achieved statehood. Today we made a step closer toward international recognition of our sovereignty,” Igor Plotnitsky said in a statement circulated by the Lugansk information center.”
Lavrov Explains What’s Behind Putin’s Decision on Donbass Residents’ Passports
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201702181050825502-lavrov-putin-donbass-documents/
“Lavrov said this issue had not been brought up during foreign ministers’ talks in the so-called Normandy Four format in Munich.
“The decree stated clearly this was made out of humanitarian concerns…until Minsk agreements have been fulfilled. The presidential decree validated IDs of Donbass residents so that they could enter Russia legally and use Russian rail transport and air carriers,” he explained.”
Well, well, well, note the sequence of events here:
Poroshenko Claims Putin’s Decree on Donbass Passports ‘Violates’ Int’l Law
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702181050827364-poroshenko-putin-donbass-passports/
Moscow’s position on E. Ukrainian regions seeking autonomy hasn’t changed – Lavrov
https://www.rt.com/news/377815-russia-ukraine-documents-decree/
“Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko slammed the decision, calling it “another proof of Russian occupation.” After having spoken with the US Vice President Mike Pence on the fringes of the Munich conference, the Ukrainian leader accused Moscow of “violating international law” with its latest decree.
Kiev “vigorously condemns” and does not recognize the Russian decree, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Having accused Russia of “violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” the ministry claimed the decision on the documents was a “de facto recognition of illegal authorities in Donbass.”
After porkshank speaks to pence, he makes his inflammatory accusations. Obviously porkshank is repeating what pence instructed him to say and it is pence who is deliberately stoking this anti Russia propaganda. This is a continuation of the zionazi war against Russia, through the Ukraine, without interruption, with the tuppence regime following on the obama regime with no substantial changes.
Note pence taking the reins unilaterally here. This provides further evidence, I think, that pence is the “general manger” of the tuppence regime, at the very least, in foreign policy decisions.
B Spear, in a nutshell the border between Syria and Lebanon is safer now than anytime after 2011. The border from Sheeba farms (lebanon-Syria-occupied Golan) all the way to the northern Qalamoun (Arsal in Lebanon-Qarah in Syria axis) is completely rat free and constant patrolling by Hizballah, NDF and near Arsal Lebanese Army.
A group of mixed terrorists (rivals) are up in the mountains of northern Qalamoun in caves basically, they hold no villages at this point.
The mix bag of rats are ISIS, al Qaeda affiliates and some smaller groups of moderats. They all kill each other and have low numbers to make any problem to Syria at the moment.
They are basically acting as traditional gang/terrorists/smugglers, they kidnap people, steal stuff and harass villages nearby but without the strength to fight serious forces.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=34.247000&lon=36.562500&z=10&m=b&gz=0;364924621;341351100;0;1646600;1579284;2349681;1812744;1328887;755310;0;68664;886157
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Syrian_Civil_War_detailed_map
There are folks questioning why the allied forces do not eradicate them all from the mountains, the answer seems that it does not worth it to sacrifice good soldiers in gaining rocks when this terrorists have limit possibility to inflict damages to both sides of the border. It has been a war of attrition for basically the past two years with rare attempts to larger engagement (last one was when ISIS was advancing toward Mahin-Sadad axis in 2015 prior to Russia’s arrival in Syria.
The southern Qualamoun pocket recently liberated after Barada Vally deal and the latest Serghayh basically eliminated the last sizeable pocket at the border, though they were isolated in few pockets they were a pain in the neck for the SAA due to the proximity of the capital and vital roads in and out from Lebanon. This victory is very important and East Ghouta will no longer be the same after that.
Israhell is very concerned about a rat free border, they know the roads, villages and the several missile sites are safe again for Hizballah and Syria to use against Israhell when the time is ripe and the weapon exchange will intensify.
Expect more Israhell air strikes in southern Qalamoun from now onwards and it could have responses once and while from Syria and Hizballah, it will be interesting when a Israhelli jet is shot down with the new defense systems under Hizballah.