Analysis: Iran deal will save Assad

Bashar Assad is the only Arab leader (leader?) who commented on the nuclear agreement. In the flattery letters he sent to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and to President Hassan Rouhani, he praises the “great achievement” and offers his own evaluation of the situation: This agreement, he states, will actually contribute to peace and stability in the Middle East.

 

Put simply, the agreement with Iran promises Bashar that the Islamic Republic will continue to support him and fund the military aid and everything required for his survival. As long as Iran is not producing a bomb, the Syrian field will not be touched.

 

And then Assad was caught in front of the cameras in a weird event: The inauguration ceremony of the Quran, written in user-friendly letters instead of the cursive style. He praised the 27 Muslim calligraphy experts who worked on it and teased the Islamic State, explaining that “the new version of the Quran is aimed at curbing distortions which will justify acts of murder in the name of Islam.”

 

Bashar, it should be mentioned, is a member of the Alawite minority faction. But he cunningly succeeded in organizing for himself an umbrella of religious scholars from the Sunni faction, which the ISIS murderers belong to.

 

Bashar has a good reason to smile. The Vienna agreement authorizes the Iranian aid, and he stands to benefit the most. No one had demanded to expel him, no one has made any comments to the Iranian delegation about the financial aid to the organizations in Syria ($6-35 billion a year), about the weapon shipments, about the murder of civilians sponsored by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and about Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force – the Guard’s elite unit – who has turned Syria and Bashar’s “palace of the people” into his private playground.

 

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