MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : NOW FINAL DECISIONS ABOUT SYRIA – Foreign Minister Zarif in Moscow to Discuss Syria plus Turks & Syrians

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

April 28, 2018  – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is in Moscow to discuss the Syrian conflict with Russian and Turkish counterparts.Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said meetings would take place through Saturday, in the first discussion between Zarif, Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, and Turkey’s Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu since March 16.

Since then, pro-Assad forces — enabled by Russian airstrikes and assisted by chemical as well as conventional attacks — have completed the capture of the East Ghouta area near Syria. Breaking the “de-escalation zones” announced by Russia, Turkey, and Iran last year, the offensive killed more than 1,700 people, injured thousands, and displaced tens of thousands.

The Assad regime has said that it wants to pursue more offensives until it reclaims all of Syria. A likely target for its next operations are opposition areas in southern Syria, along the Jordanian border; however, that could risk a confrontation with Israel, which has periodically carried out airstrikes on Assad regime positions, killing Iranian personnel and disrupting transfer of missiles and weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.