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العربية The Syrian Center for Studies and Polling has conducted a large survey of Syrians’ opinions about “the prospects of a political solution” coming out of the forthcoming Geneva II conference. The survey involved two polls, one online (through social media), in which 12,040 people participated, and the […]
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Could the Iranian government be the supplier of the chemical rockets that killed hundreds of civilians? New analysis of rockets linked to the sarin gas attack on the suburbs of Damascus on 21 August 2013 has concluded that the rockets were most likely fired by multiple launchers […]
Read more →Throughout the first year or so of the war in Syria, Hezbollah Lebanon’s leader Hasan Nasrallah was apparently resisting repeated requests from Iranian military and security leaders, particularly from the head of Sepah Qods Qasim Suleimani, that Hezbollah should send large numbers of fighters to Syria to […]
Read more →According to a commentary piece published by Fars News today,[1] quoting “international analysts”, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will remain in power for the time being. However, the piece is based entirely on one article in Arabic by someone called Lamis Farhat, published by a Lebanese website called […]
Read more →“Never cross the official red line.” This is the the unwritten principle regulating Iranian media inside Iran in anything related to the country’s foreign policy. And Iran’s role in Syria (and in Lebanon) is certainly one of the most sensitive of these red lines. For how else […]
Read more →After its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted an anti-American foreign policy that led, among other things, to the seizure of the US embassy in Iran and the subsequent US military operation known as the Tabas attack. The Islamic Republic then found itself in […]
Read more →The Lebanese Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech on Friday during the commemoration of Hezbollah’s commander Hassan Lakkis – who was assassinated by unknown gunmen at his home in Lebanon in early December – in which he claimed Hezbollah wanted to form a “national unity government” […]
Read more →Even though it’s published on Al-Jazeera, which has become a hub for biased, sectarian media coverage of Syria, this is a very good article by Rima Majed, a PhD student at Oxford, United Kingdom. Majed argues that framing of the Syrian uprising as an ages-old sectarian war […]
Read more →Under the title ‘Whose Sarin?’, the renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the London Review of Books in early December 2013 about the Ghouta chemical attack near Damascus in August 2013 (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin). Hersh claims that the Obama administration “cherry-pickedintelligence [on the use of chemical […]
Read more →Good piece from the political web magazine Slate on what the Iranian nuclear deal with the west means for Syria. The article outlines different perspectives and scenarios: from al-Assad welcoming the “historic agreement” as reduced sanctions against Iran could take the pressure off Iran and allow it […]
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