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MESOP TODAYS QUOTATION : FUTUROLOGY

Obama may be out, but ‘Obamaism’ is here to stay, Israel’s Oren reportedly says

Jerusalem Post 1 Sept 2016

 

MESOP TODAYS ANALYSIS  : A TOTAL  FAILED REGIME  –  The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think (JOHNS HOPKINS SAIS)

Tobias Schneider –  August 31, 2016 – War on the rocks –  In a recent interview conducted by Aaron David Miller for Foreign Policy, Robert Malley, one of the president’s most trusted advisors on the Middle East, once again enumerated the competing priorities of U.S. Syria policy: the need to balance humanitarian concerns with the desire to “preserve state institutions” and avoid a power vacuum so that the country does not slide into total anarchy.

Over the past three years in particular, this line of argument has not only been a mainstay those supporting a carefully calibrated, limited U.S. Syria policy in line with the current administration but also by a number of commentators writing both implicitly and explicitly in defense of Damascus. In two revisionist articles published recently at War on the Rocks, an author writing under a pseudonym presents the Assad regime as ruthless, but at least secular, pluralistic and — most importantly — as the final basion of civic, central authority in a tumultuous Middle East. Whereas the indefatigable Emile Hokayem already formulated an eloquent response regarding sectarian dynamics in the Levant, there is an equally important question raised in the piece warrants answering: What’s really left of the Syrian central state? Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=77667

 

MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY

NON-IRANIAN SHIITES PAYING THE PRICE IN ALEPPO

By Ali Alfoneh – PolicyWatch 2682 – August 31, 2016 – Ali Alfoneh is the author of Iran Unveiled: How the Revolutionary Guards Is Turning Theocracy into Military Dictatorship (AEI Press, 2013).

The costly siege has spurred Iran to withdraw or relocate certain IRGC units, but this is unlikely to hurt the Assad coalition’s strategy in Aleppo so long as Hezbollah and other Shiite militias remain willing to fight there. . – WHAT THE DATA SHOWS : http://www.mesop.de/?p=77673

 

MESOP TODAYS OPINION – VLADIMIR PUTIN & THE SHIITE AXIS

By Anna Borshchevskaya –  Foreign Policy – August 30, 2016 – Anna Borshchevskaya is the Ira Weiner Fellow at The Washington Institute.

Russia’s military alliance with Iran is all about keeping Assad in power and America on its back foot, and even a short-lived partnership can do long-term damage to U.S. interests.

On Aug. 16, Russian bombers took off from Shahid Nojeh air base near the Iranian city of Hamadan reportedly to bomb Islamic State targets in Syria. The fact that the Russian air force had based planes inside Iran was not only a surprise to American diplomats — it was news to many Iranian officials as well. While State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the Russian action may have violated a UN Security Council resolution, 20 Iranian legislators demanded a closed session of parliament to discuss why Iran had allowed foreign forces to base themselves in the country for the first time since World War II. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=77676

 

MESOP TODAYS “POINT OF VIEW” :  THE US DOUBLE TROUBLE WITH YPG(PYD-PKK)

Did US drag Turkey into ‘Syrian quagmire’? By Semih Idiz (AL MONITOR)

30 Aug 2016 – Turkey’s radically new approach to Syria since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan replaced Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in May with his trusted acolyte Binali Yildirim is unfolding fast. Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria, named Operation Euphrates Shield, which includes Turkish-trained Free Syrian Army (FSA) elements, reflects the new climate prevailing in Ankara.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=77678

 

MESOP “THE SCANDAL OF THE WEEK” : KATI PIRI (NETHERLAND SOCIALIST – ELMAR BROK (GERMANY-CHRIST DEMOCRAT) & OTHERS AGAIN IN FAVOR OF ERDOGAN (SCHULZ & MOGHERINI ALSO EN ROUTE ANKARA)

By Aleksandra Eriksson – EUOBSERVER – BRUSSELS, 31. Aug, 09:29

There was a hint of regret in the air as MEPs Elmar Brok and Kati Piri on Tuesday (30 August) debriefed fellow members of the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee about their recent trip to Turkey and urged their colleagues to stand by EU deals with Ankara. Brok, the committee’s chairman, and Piri, the parliament’s rapporteur on Turkey, last week met prime minister Binali Yildirim and several other members of the Turkish government. They also spoke to representatives of all opposition parties and civil society organisations.Both said they had reassessed some of their views in the course of their visit.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=77686

 

EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)

“KNOW BETTER WITH MESOP-EXCLUSIVE: Inside ‘the Glasshouse’: Iran ‘is running covert war in Syria costing BILLIONS from top secret spymaster HQ near Damascus airport’ / DAILY MAIL UK

  • Sources within Iran’s Revolutionary Guards leaked intelligence to activists who passed it to MailOnline
  • Tehran ‘runs operations in Syria from an HQ near Damascus airport’, said to be nicknamed ‘The Glasshouse’
  • The intelligence says there are 60,000 fighters under Iranian command in Syria, not 16,000 as was thought
  • Claims said to be ‘credible’ by intelligence experts, suggesting West has underestimated Iran’s influence
  • Iran ‘has spent billions – possibly as much as $100billion on hardware and support for Assad since 2011’
  • It comes a year after Western powers signed a controversial nuclear deal with Iran

By Jake Wallis Simons, Associate Global Editor, For Mailonline – | Updated: 15:52 GMT, 30 August 2016  –  Iran is shoring up the Syrian regime from a secret HQ in Damascus nicknamed ‘the Glasshouse’ – and commanding a huge covert army in support of Assad, according to leaked intelligence passed by activists to MailOnline. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claims that the theocratic state’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has spent billions in hardware for its ally Bashar al-Assad in the last five years  – and runs operations on the ground from a five-floor monolith near Damascus airport. http://www.mesop.de/?p=77669

 

 

MESOP : UNDER WRAPS  –  U.S. OK’d ‘Secret Exemptions’ for Iran   (GERMANY / CHINA)

The U.S., along with other world powers, reportedly agreed to secret exemptions that “favor Iran” after the parties’ 2015 nuclear pact, according to Reuters. The other negotiating partners were Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany. The report’s author, former UN weapons inspector David Albright, contends that he gathered information based on unnamed officials from those nations. When questioned by Reuters reporters, U.S. officials say no such secret arrangements were made. The report will be released Thursday by the Institute for Science and International Security. “The exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran,” Albright said. According to Albright, the allowances were made so that an economic deadline could be met for Iran.  Read full text  http://www.mesop.de/?p=77690

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

“KNOW BETTER WITH MESOP” : Inside the Turkish Military’s Civil War / WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT OF THE COUP

By Jared Malsin – time.com – 2016-08-31 – On the evening of July 15, Major General Ibrahim Aydin was at a bridal party for a friend’s daughter at a hotel in central Ankara when warplanes began roaring low over the capital. The noise was one of the first signs that a faction of the military was attempting to seize power from the elected government. Aydin left the party, dropped his wife at home and headed to a military housing complex. By the next morning Aydin would find himself fighting his way through a Turkish military base in a battle for Turkey’s political future.On the base he became one of an initial group of six generals organizing part of the response to the coup among the military units still loyal to the government. He called his commanding officer, Galip Mendi, the commander of Turkey’s gendarmerie, a militarized internal security force.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=77684

 

MESOP MIDDLE EAST

MESOP : COMMON INTERESTS  – What are Netanyahu and Putin plotting? – By Ben Caspit (AL MONITOR)

1th Sept 2016 – According to quite a few reports in recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to host a summit in Moscow for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The first report appeared in Maariv on July 11 and was confirmed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a press briefing this month as well as by Israeli, Palestinian and Russian officials. According to sources, the summit is being planned to take place around October or a little later.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=77688

 

 

THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER

MESOP : DIE LETZTEN TAGE VON EUROPA  / NOCH HALBGEHEIMER BEVORSTEHENDER ROUHANI BESUCH IN BERLIN / ALKOHOL VERBOTEN / STATUEN VERHÜLLT

Volker Beck (DIE GRÜNEN) erklärt dazu:
„Sowohl bei den Proliferationsbestrebungen, als auch den Besuchsplänen des Iran spart die Bundesregierung an Wahrheit und Klarheit. Im Regierungsviertel ist allen bewusst, dass ein sehr ranghoher Staatsbesuch aus dem Iran ansteht und offenbar nur noch um die Frage gerungen wird, ob es beim Bankett Wein geben darf oder nicht.“ Volltext  http://www.mesop.de/?p=77682

 

MESOP FLASH : „WIR MÜSSEN WÄHLEN – ENTWEDER GUELEN ODER DIE TÜRKEI ! JAMES JEFFREY

US-Diplomat fordert Gülen-Auslieferung an Türkei – EPA James Jeffrey war von 2008 bis 2010 Botschafter in der Türkei, ehe er in gleicher Funktion in den Irak wechselte

Fethullah Gülen lebt im US-Exil, die Türkei verlangen seine Auslieferung: Dies unterstützt nun auch der Ex-US-Botschafter in Ankara. James Jeffrey hat deutliche Gründe für die Auslieferung.  Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=77680

 

 

MESOP „NEUES AUS DER KULTUR VON LBGTI“ : MIT GEGENDERTER SPRACHE VERSTÄNDNIS FÜR FRAUENHINRICHTER  / SPRECHERIN DER PARTEI DIE GRÜNEN & QUEERPOLITIKERIN IM  IRAN

Grüne Politikerin denkt über Hinrichtungen als mögliche Notwendigkeit einer moderaten Politik im Iran nach und verteidigt dabei sogar die Nutzung von Atomenergie

„Ich versuche nichts zu relativieren. Ich glaube nur, dass es nicht viel bringt, den Iran so darzustellen, wie ihr es immer tut und gleichzeitig Netanjahus Hardliner Rhetorik ignoriert.“ (Thees Kalmer)

von Gerd Buurmann

Thees Kalmer ist eine deutsche Politikerin. Sie war von 2013 bis 2015 Sprecherin der Grünen Jugend. Ihre Schwerpunktthemen sind Ökologie, Europapolitik und Queerpolitik. Sie ist Gegnerin des Freihandelsabkommen zwischen den USA und der EU. Auf dem Bundesparteitag der Grünen im November 2014 in Hamburg kritisierte sie Winfried Kretschmann wegen des Asylkompromisses. Bei der Entscheidung, drei Balkanstaaten zu sicheren Herkunftsländer zu erklären, seien „rote Linien“ deutlich überschritten worden. Milder geht sie mit dem Präsidenten der Islamischen Republik Iran um. Ihm sieht sie sogar Hinrichtigungen nach. Keine rote Linie nirgends:

„Nach den Gesprächen, die wir geführt haben, wird Rohani vor Ort als moderat eingeschätzt. Die dennoch hohen Hinrichtungszahlen wurden uns so erklärt, dass er aufgrund seiner moderaten Politik innenpolitische Härte zeigen muss, um auch die Konservativen hinter sich zu bekommen. Insgesamt würde ich sagen, hat der Deal, auch wenn noch nicht vollständig umgesetzt, sicherlich Verbesserungen gebracht, allein schon durch den Anstieg an Tourist_innen und durch den erwarteten wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung im Land.“ Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=77662


MESOP SCHLAGZEILE  : DEUTSCHE BUNDESBEHÖREN HABEN SEIT JANUAR 2015 NUR  5 (FÜNF!) FLÜCHTLINGE FEST EINGESTELLT – SIE SCHAFFEN DAS !

FAZ Wirtschaft Seite 17 – 1. Sept 2016

Konsequenter sind nur noch Organisationen wie pro asyl oder  Medico international oder WADI e.V. und an die dutzend Ihresgleichen: in ihren Führungsgremien ist oft seit Jahrzehnten auch nicht ein Mensch aus der Fremde in den Vereinsregistern verzeichnet. Splendid apartheid !

Der Staat stellt nicht ein, die Wirtschaft, und die mittelständischen NGO Eliten nicht: die Unteren solls alleine richten:  white trash + intercultural trash. So haben sie sich das gedacht. www.mesop.de