SO..
WHAT IS THE NEW. .RUSSIAN... IRANIAN MESSAGE ON SYRIA
If we
assume the Russians and the Iranians don't go a single day without discussion
the future of Syria ,
then we have to wonder about the timely press announcements list below.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/01/2013127162214699107.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-iran-20130127,2760912,3791761.story
Is Iran worried
about the Patriot deployments along the Turkish, Syrian border?
Perhaps,
but not from a tactical perspective of the weapon's package itself.
Is Iran worried, Turkey
wanted these "safeguards" in place before they would agree to slice
out a "freezone" in Western Syria ?
I can
but that, but the reality has become that "freezone" has all but been
established by the Rebels now and I'm not sure such a concept is something even
worth planning for.
It's
old news to hear Iran will
not tolerate the overthrow of Assad, at least not until it's a deal Iran can live
with!!!!
So,
the question becomes why the reminder from one of Khamenei's henchmen?
There
is another part of this story I found interesting.
"
An attack on Syria would be
considered an attack on Iran
and Iran 's
allies"?????
Who
is Ahmad Vahidi referring to?
Could
this be another veiled threat towards events in Iraq ?
We
all know how poorly things are going in Iraq
for Iran
and that is bad news stacked on top of bad news.... Those pesky Arabs.... The
poor Persians just can't trust them!!!
Ok,
so then the Russians, come out nearly at the same time as this latest threat
from Iran
and make the comment Assad's days are possibly
numbered.
We
all know Medvedev doesn't make a public comment with the Russian stamp on it
unless the Tsar has approved of it.
So....
are Russia and Iran playing
"Good Cop... Bad Cop"?????
Maybe,
but to what end?
As I
have said for over a year and a half now, Assad will not last one day longer
then it takes the Russians and the Iranians to figure out how to control or
live with Syria
post Assad.
Perhaps
Iran 's threat to bring Iraq into the fold is part of the plot to keep
the West from even contemplating actions in Syria .
If
that is true, I would find it more than humorous, given the West total reluctance to take one viable
act towards operations in Syria .
I could almost understand Iran 's frustration if things were really going
good for the West, but with the events of Mali in the past two weeks, the
West is hardly in the driver's seat!!!
I'm
not sure anyone is ins control of events right about now, and I'm even less convinced
anyone has a actionable game plan towards all these issues.
Oh
ya... North Korea
is going to steal the attention span of just about everyone real soon!!!!
I
wonder what the "game plan" is for that crisis.... if any???
