A compromise on the role of Iran in Syria is it possible? – NRK Urix – Foreign News and Documentaries

An agreement on Iran's role in Syria could result from the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American colleague Donald Trump in Helsingsfors, Finland, on July 16

. is working hard to achieve a concrete result of the long-awaited summit between the two nuclear forces in the United States and Russia.

Both sides said that they will address a wide range of international topics, including the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the Iranian nuclear program, disarmament in general, Ukraine and especially the war in Syria.

Russia has always supported the regime in place and President Bashar al-Assad, while the United States has supported the so-called "responsible opposition" in the country.

Iran strongly present in Syria

After the Entry of Russia alongside Assad in September 2015, the jump in the war is reversed. Iranian "volunteers" participated in the struggles, including the reopening of the country's largest city, Aleppo, in the autumn of 2016.

Several thousand soldiers, officers and advisers Iranians participate alongside Assad. These have also been operating in southern Syria on the border of Israel insisting Iran.

At the same time, Iran supplied weapons to the Lebanese militia of Hezbollah. Hezbollah played a very important role in government forces during the civil war in Syria.

Israel repeatedly led attacks in Syria targeting Hezbollah and Iranian forces. This is perhaps a subject on which it will be possible to reach an agreement at the Helsinki summit.

The Russian and Israeli military have always been in close contact with the conflict in Syria, but the fear that the Iranian presence near the border with Israel may lead to direct confrontations.

According to Bloomberg, Russia and Putin will in principle be willing to agree on an agreement whereby the forces backed by Iran and Iran will be removed from southern Syria. 19659002] The Russian authorities should already be in talks with Iran about this

It is likely that Iran is not completely excluded from the Syrian army, and it is doubtful whether Russia can do it. As already asked President Donald Trump

On the Russian side, it is noteworthy that Russia and the United States have a common interest in crushing all groups that can be defined as radical Islamic groups of the Syrian territory

. However, countries strongly disagree with the definition of who belongs to these groups.

Russia has largely supported the Assad regime's definition that all those who have made the armed rebel against his power are extremists and must be fought by power.

After the last offensive against the rebels in Daraa In the south-west of the country, it is mainly in Idlib, in the north of the country, that the Syrian rebels control larger areas. The Russian military still has its role in negotiating local agreements to bring the rebels to surrender against Russia, guaranteeing their safety.

The question is whether the Russian influence is as great as the war-torn Iranian forces and their Hezbollah. allies. The security policy advisor of Donald Trump, who was in Moscow in late June to prepare the summit between Trump and Putin, is one of those who demanded that Iran leave Syria.

Bolton also criticized the Iranian. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow 11. July, when the Iranian presence near the border with Israel is going to be a theme.

Can Putin go to Trump?

The plan is that Putin and Trump meet first for the conversation with only present interpreters before expanding to include advisers. With Trumps tending to make quick decisions to see concrete results, this has raised concerns. At the end of June, US Ambassador to Estonia James D. Melville protested against what he said was directly denaturing US allies in Europe .

It was also noted that Trump, during the G7 meeting in Canada, stated that he did not find it abnormal that the Crimean peninsula belong to Russia because people speak Russian

Trump: I am well prepared

The Crimean peninsula was annexed by Russia after a military operation in February and March 2014, then incorporated into Russia following a referendum that only a few countries have recognized as legal .

According to the American newspaper The New York Times, one is feared is well prepared to meet the experienced Vladimir Putin, and that he can therefore be invaded in important matters.

Trump himself stated that he spent his entire life preparing for such a summit, according to n. AP Office.

The question is whether the Putin and Trump employees in the tough week of meetings in the Finnish capital manage to form a basis for an agreement that can make both parties say that the meeting was crowned of success and create change in the world.