Tahrir al-Sham, Zionism, Türkiye and Iran. The situation is rapidly becoming more complicated

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Written by Damir Nazarov

Probably only the lazy have not asked themselves the question: why is the new head of Syria, Mohammed al-Julani, and his team ignoring the Zionist aggression? The leader of Tahrir al-Sham says anything, from threats to bring former Baath regime workers to trial, to searching for the remains of chemical weapons, from amnesty for elements of the Assad government, to “building a Syria for all Syrians”, but there is not a word about the Zionist occupation. Things got to the point that, against the backdrop of al-Julani’s call for Syrians to “take to the streets and celebrate the revolution,” elders of the Druze community in the village of Hader (Quneitra province) issued a statement that they preferred to live under Zionist occupation rather than exist under the rule of Tahrir al-Sham.

Someone can justify al-Julani’s conformism, saying that Syria has many internal problems. But in that case, we shouldn’t call ourselves revolutionaries, because from the history of two grand revolutions of the past (the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the October Revolution), we remember that the presence of several enemies at once, including occupation, helped the new revolutionary society to consolidate and, despite all the problems, drive the occupiers out of their land (for example, the Iranians fought off Saddam’s intervention).

Today, the Syrians do not have the same problems as the then young Iranian Islamic Republic of 1979, which was immediately driven under sanctions, plus the Syrian revolutionaries have plenty of friends from among the regional and world elites, but there is no talk of any holy war against the occupiers. Nothing has prevented and does not prevent Mohammad al-Julani from declaring jihad on the Zionists, at least at the level of rhetoric and diplomacy, but he does not do this. It is precisely the presence of a common enemy of the majority of the population that ideally consolidates society after decades of civil war and against the backdrop of the euphoria of the victory of the revolution. But the leader of Tahrir al-Sham apparently has his own view of history or has good reasons to continue to throw dust in the eyes of Syrians against the backdrop of the unfolding tragedy in the south of the country.

It is possible to assume what is the reason for the total passivity of Ahmed al-Sharaa (new name of the head of Tahrir al-Sham) in relation to Zionism. What if some agreement was previously concluded between yesterday’s Jabhat Nusra and the US Republicans, according to which Tahrir al-Sham, being a “strategic asset” of the Americans, refuses to fight the Zionists in exchange for recognition of legitimacy in the eyes of the international community? We will soon find out what lies behind al-Julani’s silence regarding the Zionist intervention. But for now, for comparison, we can look at the statements of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, who at least condemned the Zionists, and at the beginning of this year, the Ikhwans of Syria openly supported Hamas’s operation – the “al-Aqsa flood”.

But if Muhammad al-Julani does not yet feel competition with the Brotherhood, the leader of the “new Syria” is clearly concerned about Turkish criticism. Otherwise, the former leader of Syrian Al-Qaeda would not have become Ibrahim Kalin’s personal driver. And this very criticism is precisely connected with Zionist interference. Ibrahim Kalin’s visit to Damascus leaves a number of questions, the main one being “does al-Julani know who the current head of Turkish intelligence is?” Why is this question important? Because in the context of Tahrir al-Sham and its allies’ hatred of Iran and Hezbollah, the appearance of the real head of Syria in the capital sheds light on both the behind-the-scenes games and the real priorities in the foreign policy of the Turkish Republic, where the jihadists have a small share.

Let me start with the fact that Ibrahim Kalin is closely connected to the IRGC and was once an active supporter of the legendary Imam Khomeini. Thus, we saw how a famous jihadist and former leader of the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, which is famous for its anti-Iranian policy, just became the personal driver of one of the most pro-Iranian figures in Turkey.

Are we really witnessing humorous political irony from the Islamic Republic???

Here I recall the words and quotes of the Ayatollahs of Qom and Tehran – “they wanted to remove Iranian influence from the region, but soon the Islamic Resistance will become wider and stronger!” Something tells me that these words are not just slogans or emotions.

P.S. The Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported that “The new leadership of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria informed representatives of the Palestinian factions in the country that these factions will no longer have weapons, training camps or military headquarters. The factions are required to immediately disband their military units so that they can focus on political and charitable activities within the framework of the new Syrian state.”

It seems that the “Strategic Asset” of the Zionist neocons has begun to act.

Update. The so-called “Syrian Salvation Government” has responded to the Zionist intervention by filing a complaint with the UN. The main enemies of the Baath regime themselves are acting similarly to the previous Syrian leadership in relation to Zionism. It seems that even this complaint was written by Jabhat Nusra under Turkish pressure. But in any case, this is not even funny or sad, it is disgusting and we still have many facts of Tahrir al-Sham’s weakness in the fight against the occupiers.

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