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Analysts comment ahead of President Assad’s visit of Iran
Damascus, Oct 2, IRNA – Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is scheduled to arrive in Iran heading a high-ranking delegation Saturday morning to discuss blossoming bilateral ties, regional and international significant developments.
Assad’s state visit of Iran will be viewed keeping in mind both countries’ excellent relations and comprehensive cooperation during the past 30 years of Iran’s post revolution history and as another step in the continuous course of the two countries’ top officials’ visits of each others’ capitals.
The Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Valid al-Muallem is accompanying President Assad in this visit.
Keeping in mind the high level Tehran-Damascus ties and that leaders’ visits often lead to further improvement relations, the one day visit of Assad is analyzed by regional and world affairs analysts, and naturally by the two countries political columnists in that respect, as well.
Exchanging ideas on the two countries’ shared neighbor Iraq and its last winter parliamentary elections, and elaboration on Syria’s stand regarding the ongoing Middle East peace talks, will most probably be the topics of the two major Mideast nations’ leaders in Tehran.
Iraq’s first prime minister after the ousting of the former regime Iad Allawi who has several times visited Syria, the last of which was last Wednesday, is one of the four major winners of the last Iraqi election.
Allawi’s coalition list, whose winner candidates, 91, comprise the majority of the current Iraqi parliament are comprised of secular Shi’a and Sunni Arabs. Yet, he has not been able to establish a cabinet due to disagreements with the other three winner coalitions, and therefore he might have sought Syria and Iran’s assistance in that respect, which seem somehow unlikely as Allawi has been the most unfriendly Iraqi statesmen ever since Saddam towards Tehran.
Those who believe Assad’s visit would be focused on Middle East developments, argue that the last round of peace talks are aimed at ending the segregated status of Israel thanks to the US meddling, that was intensified after the Zionist regime’s brutal and inhumane invasion against the International Peace Flotilla that was going to break the siege of Gaza.
Syria itself has had four rounds of peace talks with the Zionist regime so far, the last rounds of which under the mediation of Turkey, but Iran has not reacted to them either way. The latest round of such talks was halted after Israel’s brutal invasion into Gaza.
Several conservative Arab leaders have been trying to encourage Damascus to resume those talks with Tel Aviv after the resuming of the peace talks in Washington, and they are in a hurry to do so, so long as the conservatives are still in charge West Bank Palestinian self rule.
Other analysts, yet, believe since Iran, Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah are close allies of the Palestinian resistance forces, the visit might be a step aimed at strengthening the resistance front.
They argue that the medal that the Islamic Republic of Iran is going to grant to the Syrian leader is rather for his country’s brave resistance at the forefront of the struggle against the racist Zionist regime, as well as a sign of Iran’s will to further boost economic ties with Damascus.
Iran’s Ambassador to Syria Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi has in this respect told IRNA that 21 economic delegations of the two countries have visited each others’ capitals in fist six months of the current year.
The two countries joint economic commission was convened in mid spring of 2010 in Damascus, led by Iran’s 1st vice president and the Syrian prime minister.
President Ahmadinejad’s Deputy in Regulating Economic Affairs Ali Aqamohammadi has visited Syria twice in first six months of the current year and a high ranking Iranian delegation has visited Damascus to see into increasing the number of the Iranian pilgrims of Lady Zeinab’s holy shrine.
Several Iranian economic delegations visited Syria in mid-summer of 2010 and the Iranian Roads and Transportations Minister visited Damascus early this fall.
As a most significant economic development, the license for the establishment of the first private sector joint Iranian-Syrian bank, Al-Aman, has been issued to facilitate the high volume business and economic relations of the two countries and the Syrian Deputy Prime Minister in Economic Affairs Abdullah al-Dardari arrived in Tehran atop a 14 member delegation in mid-summer of 2010.
Iran has opened a permanent exhibition of its products in Syria that would in near future lead to the further blossoming of economic relations in favor of the two nations.
Political issues might and will be addressed in President Assad’s visit therefore, but keeping in mind that in addition to what was said above, the two countries have signed a free trade pact, the main axis of the visits of both sides would be boosting economic ties, in favor of the two nations and security for the entire regional nations.
President Assad’s visit to meet with Ahmadinejad occurs less than two weeks after the two met in Syria ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting.
According to a statement released by the Syrian presidential office on Friday: “The two sides have pointed out (in their previous meeting) the importance of seeing that Iraq emerges from its crisis in government in order to preserve unity, stability and security.”
The meeting between the Syrian and Iranian leaders also comes ahead of a planned visit by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to Lebanon this month, and can include consultations respectively./end
Assad’s state visit of Iran will be viewed keeping in mind both countries’ excellent relations and comprehensive cooperation during the past 30 years of Iran’s post revolution history and as another step in the continuous course of the two countries’ top officials’ visits of each others’ capitals.
The Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Valid al-Muallem is accompanying President Assad in this visit.
Keeping in mind the high level Tehran-Damascus ties and that leaders’ visits often lead to further improvement relations, the one day visit of Assad is analyzed by regional and world affairs analysts, and naturally by the two countries political columnists in that respect, as well.
Exchanging ideas on the two countries’ shared neighbor Iraq and its last winter parliamentary elections, and elaboration on Syria’s stand regarding the ongoing Middle East peace talks, will most probably be the topics of the two major Mideast nations’ leaders in Tehran.
Iraq’s first prime minister after the ousting of the former regime Iad Allawi who has several times visited Syria, the last of which was last Wednesday, is one of the four major winners of the last Iraqi election.
Allawi’s coalition list, whose winner candidates, 91, comprise the majority of the current Iraqi parliament are comprised of secular Shi’a and Sunni Arabs. Yet, he has not been able to establish a cabinet due to disagreements with the other three winner coalitions, and therefore he might have sought Syria and Iran’s assistance in that respect, which seem somehow unlikely as Allawi has been the most unfriendly Iraqi statesmen ever since Saddam towards Tehran.
Those who believe Assad’s visit would be focused on Middle East developments, argue that the last round of peace talks are aimed at ending the segregated status of Israel thanks to the US meddling, that was intensified after the Zionist regime’s brutal and inhumane invasion against the International Peace Flotilla that was going to break the siege of Gaza.
Syria itself has had four rounds of peace talks with the Zionist regime so far, the last rounds of which under the mediation of Turkey, but Iran has not reacted to them either way. The latest round of such talks was halted after Israel’s brutal invasion into Gaza.
Several conservative Arab leaders have been trying to encourage Damascus to resume those talks with Tel Aviv after the resuming of the peace talks in Washington, and they are in a hurry to do so, so long as the conservatives are still in charge West Bank Palestinian self rule.
Other analysts, yet, believe since Iran, Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah are close allies of the Palestinian resistance forces, the visit might be a step aimed at strengthening the resistance front.
They argue that the medal that the Islamic Republic of Iran is going to grant to the Syrian leader is rather for his country’s brave resistance at the forefront of the struggle against the racist Zionist regime, as well as a sign of Iran’s will to further boost economic ties with Damascus.
Iran’s Ambassador to Syria Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi has in this respect told IRNA that 21 economic delegations of the two countries have visited each others’ capitals in fist six months of the current year.
The two countries joint economic commission was convened in mid spring of 2010 in Damascus, led by Iran’s 1st vice president and the Syrian prime minister.
President Ahmadinejad’s Deputy in Regulating Economic Affairs Ali Aqamohammadi has visited Syria twice in first six months of the current year and a high ranking Iranian delegation has visited Damascus to see into increasing the number of the Iranian pilgrims of Lady Zeinab’s holy shrine.
Several Iranian economic delegations visited Syria in mid-summer of 2010 and the Iranian Roads and Transportations Minister visited Damascus early this fall.
As a most significant economic development, the license for the establishment of the first private sector joint Iranian-Syrian bank, Al-Aman, has been issued to facilitate the high volume business and economic relations of the two countries and the Syrian Deputy Prime Minister in Economic Affairs Abdullah al-Dardari arrived in Tehran atop a 14 member delegation in mid-summer of 2010.
Iran has opened a permanent exhibition of its products in Syria that would in near future lead to the further blossoming of economic relations in favor of the two nations.
Political issues might and will be addressed in President Assad’s visit therefore, but keeping in mind that in addition to what was said above, the two countries have signed a free trade pact, the main axis of the visits of both sides would be boosting economic ties, in favor of the two nations and security for the entire regional nations.
President Assad’s visit to meet with Ahmadinejad occurs less than two weeks after the two met in Syria ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting.
According to a statement released by the Syrian presidential office on Friday: “The two sides have pointed out (in their previous meeting) the importance of seeing that Iraq emerges from its crisis in government in order to preserve unity, stability and security.”
The meeting between the Syrian and Iranian leaders also comes ahead of a planned visit by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to Lebanon this month, and can include consultations respectively./end
