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Turkey is planning to establish a buffer zone on the Iranian side of the border if a worst-case scenario unfolds and the government in Tehran collapses, the Middle East Eye (MEE) reported on January 27.
The United States has been escalating against Iran since the start of the month over a wave of violent protests, and President Donald Trump who ordered the deployment of additional military assets to the Middle East, is reported to be considering serious military operations including a naval blockade and assassinations.
Turkey has been supportive of Iran, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan even rejecting any foreign intervention in the Islamic Republic, but the latest report by MEE indicates that Ankara is preparing for the worst.
According to the news outlet, top Turkish foreign ministry officials on January 22 briefed lawmakers in a closed-door meeting at parliament, telling them that the country is preparing for several potential scenarios with regard to Iran.
One participant in the briefing told MEE that Turkish officials used the term “buffer zone” to describe Ankara’s intention to do everything possible to prevent another wave of refugees entering the country.
Another told the outlet, however, that the officials did not explicitly use the phrase “buffer zone”, though they expressed a willingness to go beyond the usual measures.
“Essentially, they said they believe everything possible should be done on the Iranian side to ensure that those who might come in the event of a migration remain there,” the second source said.
At the start of the escalation, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that it had strengthened security along its 560-kilometer border with Iran through a technologically enhanced physical barrier system. The system includes 203 electro‑optical towers and 43 elevator‑equipped towers, a 380-kilometer modular concrete wall, and 553-kilometer of defensive ditches.
The Turkish plan revealed by MEE mimics what the country did Iraq then Syria, where it established so-called “buffer zones” under the pretext of stopping immigration and countering the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which Ankara considers a terrorist group, in addition to ISIS.
Even if the government in Tehran collapses as a result of some U.S. attack, or a larger wave of protests, Turkey will not be able to establish a “buffer zone” in western Iran without a fight.
Kurds have a significant presence along the border line with Turkey, and they are guaranteed to resist. The majority of population in the Iranian Azerbaijan region is, however, made up of Azerbaijanis, who, being a Turkic ethnic group, could cooperate with Ankara. In fact, some Azerbaijanis joined the last wave of protests, which shows that not everyone there is pleased with the current situation.
The demographic makeup of Iranian Azerbaijan shows that Turkey may be worried more about Iranian Kurds establishing their own state, then illegal immigration. This was exactly what Turkey was worried about when it began to conduct operations in Iraq, and later in Syria.
It is highly unlikely that Turkey would withdraw after any intervention, even if a new government is established in Tehran. It also should be assumed that not just Turkey, but also Azerbaijan, would attempt to annex parts of western Iran, where some oil and gas fields are located, while the country is at its weakest.
MEE report will likely trigger a serious reaction from Iran. The Islamic Republic should, however, see it as a warning of what could happen.
The collapse of the government in Tehran could mark the end of the entire country in its current border, and even those who are currently showing support like Turkey, are likely preparing to capitalize on any intervention by the U.S. or Israel. If no agreement is reached with Washington, Iran will have no other option to survive as a country but to win the war, and quickly.
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i swallow all persian and armenian jizz
yeah, it is normal for that wreckage of the nation to do that faggotry, that is very normal for them, as well as dogs and goats.
taking into account what trump revealed and the testimony of the venezuelan guard, it is safe to assume that the u.s. military employed multiple systems at the same time to facilitate its operation in caracas. attributing all of these effects to a single system is unrealistic.
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turcii au chef sa mai ia niște pământ, petrol, gaze gratis.
china ➡️ taiwan
usa ➡️ greenland
russia ➡️ ukraine (old soviet union lands)
turkey ➡️ greek islands (old ottomand lands)
if turkey captures back and make free its ottoman islands aka greek islands,
turkey will be most visited tourism country within europe,
attracting an impressive 100,000,000 foreign sightseers tourists each year.
ramses bib rear end ramjet vanya narrative tom suckyer tries too hard to be versatile, but has no capacity for comprehensively covering his own arse. which protrudes prominently into every posting.
you getting paranoid about being mooned, or something ?
paranoid paronoid
this is so called hypocrite muslim. they are the worst enemy of ummah then israel and us. never trust erdogon he is with us and alivey of azerbaijan he is pure zionist. he has to be thought a lesson.
go on rafik you can do it though them a lesson
obviously the majority of moslems are at home or work quietly going about their lives a miniscule few are seen as activists and even less as so called islamic terrorists. in reality. who knows who they are really. we’ll never neet them or even hear their side of the story. we’ll just get msm fit for public consumption alleged reports from the media barons network of operation.
yes indeed. if that rusted ashole thinks it will do some muddling in i.r.iran he miscalculated him self, he’s just a tool for zio, cannon foder and bullshit gypsy third grade nation that roams the world just like theirs khazarian evil plague of the world.
turkey without sending living kurds from inside turkish cities to outside of its borders, same as armenians,
can not be a fully powerfull country.
kurds wants to create a kurdistan country, a state inside the turkey borders called big kurdistan.
sweet dreams.take it easy with tequila
the turks will definitely take any opportunity for a land grab.
it’s several factors being played out under people’s moses but the reo primary ones are real republics versus royals caliphates sultans kings wanting restorations to autocracies and canon versus sharia law with the pope as king of kings of the world imo.
we grab what’s rightfully belong to us.no more
all that you can grab is al grab al goats balls.
americunts swallow turkish jizz
you’ve a gut ful of it
you all fell for the western propaganda.
first you thought, that iran will collaps like a house of cards, because western propaganda made you to belive so. but it turned out, that just some as 600 mossad agents were the main cause of some deadly riots. but no uprisings.
so don’t belive these nonsense. because irans government is build by its people by revolution. and it runs by it’s people who shut the rioters mouth quickly by millions standing up against the foreign rioters. nobody will dare such bullshit like turkeys wet dreams. because the revolution can quicky swap over to them.
give it a rest silly what a load of hogwash. iran was removed of its shah because he was creating peace in the middle east, or attempting to which didn’t serve western military industrialists at all. stability would lower oil prices
bob what a bullshit you write. he was removed? by whom? trump, or yo momma?
he created peace? through his secret gestapo like murder comandos? his cia and mossad connections? by highjacking and killing innocent civilists?
go read a book. eating shit fills your head just with bullshit.
because they have enough of erdos bullshit.
simple s right, but that’s where it ends simple sums are even too much for you.
bob learn something, no matter what. but learn for god’s sake.
yes, and if imbeciloc erdogan donmeh think that it will go the way he thinks, he’ll get some bloody war he’ll never forget.
“buffer zone” is the israeli words for expansion. if turkey does all the work to gift it to israel then the plan acceptable. the turkish people get to pay for it too !
turkey is and has been doing israels bidding erdogan is a zogbot and zog helper 100% and when they wear out their shabbos goy usefulness israel will go full revolution support for the kurds to dismantle turkey from within. turks dont understand this well enough. assad iran and even armenia and russia could have been their best ally. they chose neo ottoman colonialism and thats going to be their down fall.
more of sf favourite message, its the joos, they delight in publishing as thier major message.
when the iranian government falls the jews will install the former shas son as the king of iran to do their bidding, it will be like color revolutions in armenia making it a p uppet. turkey snatching land will not be permanent it will be their downfall when they do it. kurds have been a growing minority in turkey with much higher birth rates then the turks themselves and they will get full israeli backing into breaking off when turkey becomes a direct rival to tel aviv.
israel will back the kurds to break off from turkey when it becomes a rival to their interests. israel wants to use the kurds and a independent kurdistan as a buffer state to protect their flanks when they take over greater israel syria iraq jordan lebanon upto the euphrates. we see the odet yinon plan unfolding before our eyes.
why on h**l would turkey want more kurds and impoverished region of iran?
what iran has to offer?
1) kurds behind border. erdogan would rather cut his both balls, than getting even one more kurd in turkey.
2) shia muslim refugees. turkey is sunni
3) reformist refugees, who like to demonstrate. no middle-eastern country wants brainless revolutionaries.
territory expansion? turkey has 800k km2 land area. taking that land would increase turkish area by 0,1% (800 km2).
ramses how many names you have today. what big teeth you have gran ma .
yes, turks are so stupid that they can’t even invent something by them selves. at wider scene turks are mentaly deranged sexual maniacs.
something is going to sunk.
it’s time for middle east countries to unite, help each other and don’t think that trials are not coming your way, it will be more painful and you all will be disciplined. whoever wins will conquer gulf states.
zionists cannot defeat hamas, hezbollah or houthis but they think they will defeat iran…pffff hahahaha ok cupcakes
erdo is not to be trusted, period. him and the azeri’s are ass deep with israel. erdo has been an open book since he shot down that russian jet. he badmouths bibi, while he still sends him oil. a snake if ever there was one. no doubt he has had plans on iran since him and bibi moved into azerbaijan. his gov is even more unstable than iran ever will be. iran could counter with the kurds…if the kurds finally do something smart, like warn iran of moves against them.
question is, just how far will the turkish admin go in order to satisfy their commitments to nato, as per their membership? the turkish admin have a habit of disregarding sovereignty, as displayed in syria and libya. personally i wouldn’t trust the turkish admin one bit as erdogan seems to flap like a flag in the wind. the attack on damascus came from idlib, where the turkish military had erected plenty of bases to keep out assad gov’t forces.
america will bomb iran and 13.000.000 million iranian azerbaijan turks will migrate into turkey.
erdogan will expel all the kurds from turkey and will settle these iranian azerbaijan immigrants in place of the kurds.
the kurds will be replaced with iranian azerbaijan turks and turkmen capital state will be created. kurdish capital amed aka diyarbakir will be renamed as turkmendiyar
kurds and turds/asseri are ugly degenerated ppl.
maybe they will all stop fighting and work to promote and facilitate the best interest of the public instead