Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said in an interview Sunday that his regime has been meeting “from time to time” with Biden administration officials about the withdrawal of U.S. forces that “illegally occupy parts of our land.” he claimed.
Asad Said that “These talks will not yield any results,” but there is “always hope” that relations with the United States may one day be repaired, he said, without providing details on who attended the talks or where they were held. I didn’t mention it.
Syria’s ruler made the remarks in a conversation with Russian-backed Georgian officials that was broadcast by Syria’s state news agency SANA on Sunday.
in interview On Sunday, President Assad lamented on Russia’s state-run Channel 1 that Western countries had not produced a true “politician” since Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in Britain.
“Modern politicians don’t think strategically. They solve the problems at hand, but they don’t keep their promises. Any agreement can be broken the next day,” he said. .
“I can say that there is no politician in the Western world that I would like to talk to,” he declared.
Asad Said This statesmanship failure is causing more countries to seek alliances with China rather than the United States or Europe.
“Today, all countries, including those in Western America and South America, are expanding their relationships with China. The United States uses the dollar as a weapon and a means of political pressure, ignoring the interests of its supposed partners. So this is quite logical.”
“Friendship and partnership mean having common interests, but America only has its own interests. That’s why relations with this country can never be stable or secure,” he said.
The Western world has ostracized and sanctioned Assad since his brutal crackdown on Syrian rebels escalated into a full-scale civil war in 2011. Since then, the United States has ostracized and sanctioned Assad. Designated In 1979, during the regime of current dictator Hafez Assad, Syria became a state sponsor of terrorism.
President Assad probably said well about China. That’s because China was the only major power willing to do business with the Assad regime as it racked up a growing list of atrocities. The United States and its allies have imposed what the Treasury Department called “coordinated sanctions” to counter Assad’s “continued escalation of violence against the Syrian people.”
of Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019, signed by former President Donald Trump and named after the Syrian photographer who documented the torture and killing of thousands of prisoners by the Assad regime, imposes travel restrictions on individuals and entities doing business with the Syrian regime. and imposed economic sanctions. President Assad and his wife Asma were among the first people to be sanctioned under the Caesar Act.
As President Assad suggested, the US military stationed It has been carried out in parts of Syria since 2014, ostensibly to defeat the Islamic State and prevent its rebuilding. The U.S. military has worked closely with Kurdish-led militias, which are essential to defeating ISIS but whose loyalty to Syria’s central government is questionable.
President Bashar al-Assad accused the US presence of obstructing his efforts to wipe out the last rebel holdouts and decisively end Syria’s civil war. Although resistance remains, the Syrian dictatorship has been able to maintain power with military support from Russia and Iran.
Five rockets were launched on Sunday. launched From Iraq to a US military base in Syria. Kataib Hezbollah, the most powerful of the Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq, has claimed responsibility and threatened to attack U.S. positions because the U.S. is taking too long to withdraw troops from Syria and Iraq. He is said to have said he would resume attacks. Kataib Hezbollah later denied the statement, calling it “fabricated news.”
an Iraqi militia group operating under the umbrella name “Islamic Resistance Movement of Iraq” (IRI); attacked After the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, U.S. forces were attacked approximately 170 times. The United States retaliated after three American soldiers were killed. killed There was an IRI drone attack in Jordan, after which Kataib Hezbollah strange remark It announced it would halt attacks on U.S. forces because it did not want to “embarrass” Iraq’s central government.
