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World News See other World News Articles Title: Saudi, UAE, Egypt working with Israel to counter Iran, Turkey influence in Syria: Report P · Jan 8, 2019 Gulf between US and Turkey could widen on Kurdish issue. President Erdogan declines to meet NSA John Bolton in Ankara. Venugopal Vengalil @vgmenon99 True sir . A covert alignment of Israel with GCC countries ( xmt Qatar and Oman ) will add a new BOP equation in the middle east . Iran , Turkey , Qatar and possibly Lebanon would team up against Saudi and the rest of the GCC ( Oman maintaining a neutral stand ) This is not what Saudi Arabia and Israel had in mind when they openly backed terrorist groups in Syria at the beginning of the deadly Syrian conflict. Back then, Riyadh and the Tel Aviv regime supported the militants, calling them "rebels" who fought Assad. Today, however, after Assad's many victories against the terrorists, those excuses seem even more out of place. To tackle these issues, officials present at the four-way secret meeting agreed to implement four measures. Afghanistan As a first step, they decided to help Trump deliver on his promise to reduce US troop levels in Afghanistan while working with the Taliban. A week after the meeting, American officials sat down for talks with Taliban representatives in Abu Dhabi. Iran, in coordination with the Afghan government, has been holding its own peace talks with the Taliban in order to bring calm back to Afghanistan after 17 years of US occupation. Read more: 'Iran backs Afghan peace process, democracy' Iraq The second measure agreed in the meeting was aimed at controlling "the Sunni card” in Iraq by minimizing Turkey's influence among the Alliance of the National Axis, the largest parliamentary bloc of Sunni Iraqi deputies. To achieve this, the report said, Saudi officials gave Mohammed al-Halbousi, the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, two choices during his first official visit to the kingdom in December: "to either reduce the influence of Turkey on the Alliance of the National Axis or pull out of it entirely." The officials also agreed to strengthen relations with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and prevent any reconciliation with Ankara. Syria The third measure was launching a diplomatic initiative to restore full diplomatic relations between the three Arab states and the Assad government in order to push Iran out of the picture. “They did not expect Bashar to break relations with Iran, but they wanted Bashar to use the Iranians rather than be used by them,” a Persian Gulf official said. “The message was: ‘Return back to how your father treated the Iranians, at least as an equal at the table, rather than subservient to Iranian interests.’” That's why the UAE and Bahrain decided to re-open diplomatic missions in Syria while Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir became the first president to meet with Assad in Damascus in years. Read more: Saudi-backed groups angry as nations resume Syria ties Analysts say none of these would have happened without a nod from Riyadh. The fourth measure aimed at supporting Syrian Kurds against Turkish attempts to expel the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) from Syrian towns that bordering Turkey. "The Saudis themselves do not want to be in the vanguard of this diplomatic push to court Assad. However they agree with the policy of attempting to lever Assad to weaken Turkey," the Persian Gulf official told MEE. Poster Comment: R3dp055um... Oh, how pathetic. This Saudi plan is a 50-50 mixture of idiocy and wishful thinking. [Headline] THE WHOLE THING IS NOT ABOUT COUNTERING IRAN . ISRAEL IS USING IRAN AND TURKEY'S INFLUENCE AS A PRETEXT TO KEEP SYRIA UNSTABLE FOR FUTURE ANNEXATION OF GOLAN HEIGHT ANOTHER ARAB'S LAND . THOSE STUPID PRO AMERICAN DICTATORS EITHER THEY DON'T UNDRESTAND THE PLAN OR THEY ARE REALLY SOLD THEIR SOUL AND SOON ISRAEL WILL CLAIM THEIR LANDS BY FORCE OR MONEY . JUST LIKE WHAT THEY DID TO PALESTINE . Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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