Syrian War: News #12

calm wrote:battle for Qaboun and Jobar, over the last month.

eehnie wrote:

calm wrote:battle for Qaboun and Jobar, over the last month.

The defeat of the rebels in Qaboun seems near.

eehnie wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:Given the record grain harvest in Russia this year I'd say it's going in right direction.

Ironically, it is was poor grain harvest in Russia and that year's grain export ban that led to events that snowballed into Arab spring.

Lesson to be learned here is to never allow your food production capacity to lag behind your population size.





What pisses me off to no end is the fact that everyone has gotten so accustomed to news of Russian personnel getting killed every once in a while.

They have disproportionally high number of boots on the ground and are losing people lately for no good reason whatsoever. They should be pulling men back to Latakia and doubling down on airstrikes.

This is Iranian back yard and they are the ones who should be doing heavy lifting here. Instead they sit with their thumbs up their asses and expect to just swoop in once everything is over and assert influence.

Those assholes even want to setup naval base between Tartus and Latakia. They think it will keep them safe from Israel. Hopefully Russia will give IAF all clear signal to level those dicks at first available opportunity.

Honestly I can't wait for USA to storm into Iran and turn that rat's nest into another Somalia/Iraq/Yemen.

Reaching troll level. Not a surprise after all.

Iran ready for Shanghai Pact full membership – Russian FM Lavrov

Published time: 24 Apr, 2017 09:33

Russia strongly backs Iranian membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), now that UN Security Council sanctions have been lifted from the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Iran is ready to become a full-fledged member of the organization, Lavrov said Friday during an SCO Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Astana. Tehran has “settled the problem of the UN Security Council sanctions and hence fully meets the SCO membership criteria,” according to Lavrov.

“We hope that during their June summit in Astana, the heads of our states will be able to discuss the possibility of launching the procedure for admitting Iran into the organization as a full member,” Lavrov said.

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The political, economic and military organization was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Pakistan and India were granted membership status in 2016, and both are expected to become full-fledged members in 2017 during the June summit.

Iran currently has observer status in the organization. It submitted an official application for full-fledged SCO membership in 2008. The application, however, was blocked due to sanctions imposed on Iran by the UNSC.

After 2015 nuclear deal implementation, as Iran agreed to drastically limit its nuclear fuel enrichment capabilities in exchange for lifting the sanctions, both Russia and China expressed their support for country’s full membership.

“We believe that after Iran’s nuclear problem was solved and United Nations sanctions lifted, there have been no obstacles left,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the July 2016 SCO summit in Tashkent.

Russian-Iranian relations have been steadily progressing in recent years. Like Russia, Iran is fighting international terrorism in Syria with the Damascus government’s invitation, a contribution that has earned Moscow’s praise.

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Together with Russia and Turkey, Iranian efforts were instrumental to launching Syrian peace talks in Astana, where representatives of Syria’s government and some rebel groups met for the first time outside of the battlefield.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited Moscow last month to meet with Putin. The two leaders discussed joint economic projects, the issue of using national currencies as reciprocal payments, inter-bank cooperation, and boosting trade and investment.

The Iranian president floated the idea of creating a free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

PapaDragon wrote:
Membership in civilian organization will not save them from Shock & Awe 2.0

Ayatollah's boy-harem realized that they screwed themselves up permanently by dragging their feet and trying to be another Saudi Arabia so now they are kissing every available ass they can find

Tick-tock...

Russia pushing for a frozen conflict in syria ........ why on earth when you have the initiative?

A solution in Syria that does not involve all parties of legitimate Syrian (fuck the foreigners and ISIS/Daesh) factions, is just round one of many more to come.

A solution that at least includes the actual opposition to Assad that are actually from Syria and not funded externally with another agenda will last longer and make Syria safe again.

PapaDragon wrote:

MonkeymodelBananaRepublic wrote:Russia pushing for a frozen conflict in syria ........ why on earth when you have the initiative?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/world/middleeast/russia-syria-de-escalation-zones-astana.html?referer=https://www.google.com.au/

The moment Russia started ops in Syria both Syrians and their Iranian owners were given military victory on a silver plate. All they had to do was to get their asses into gear and claim it.

But they refuse to do even that. They want someone else to do absolutely all the work, take all the risk, make all the sacrifices and then after everything is done to give them permission to declare victory and take all the spoils.

Nobody is stupid enough to fall for that, least of all Russia. They made that stupid mistake in East Europe back in WW2 and they learned their lesson.

If Syrians and Iranians do not want to contribute then others will.

I already said that Russia already secured it's interests in Syria. Everything else is just gravy. Syria and Iran on the other hand, not so much. But that is their problem, not Russian.

PapaDragon wrote:

The moment Russia started ops in Syria both Syrians and their Iranian owners were given military victory on a silver plate. All they had to do was to get their asses into gear and claim it.

But they refuse to do even that. They want someone else to do absolutely all the work, take all the risk, make all the sacrifices and then after everything is done to give them permission to declare victory and take all the spoils.

Nobody is stupid enough to fall for that, least of all Russia. They made that stupid mistake in East Europe back in WW2 and they learned their lesson.

If Syrians and Iranians do not want to contribute then others will.

I already said that Russia already secured it's interests in Syria. Everything else is just gravy. Syria and Iran on the other hand, not so much. But that is their problem, not Russian.