Washington kills an “ISIS” leader… and Paris will try 3 Syrian officials
Wednesday – 14 Ramadan 1444 AH – 05 April 2023 CE Issue Number [16199]
Moscow: Raed Jabr Washington – Damascus – Tehran: Asharq Al-Awsat
Yesterday, Tehran held the funeral of two officers of the Revolutionary Guards who were killed in an Israeli raid on March 31 on Damascus, amid threats to respond to their killing, and a declaration by two senior officials in the regime, the intention to cling to Iranian influence, role and presence in Syria.
The mourners chanted the slogan “Down with Israel” in a square in Tehran, four days after the strike that killed Milad Heydari and Miqdad Mahqani. “We will avenge the blood of the two martyrs,” said Ramadan Sharif, spokesman for the “Revolutionary Guard,” after the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, warned that Tehran “reserves the right to respond,” while the “Tasnim” agency affiliated with the “Guard” quoted an official in the Ministry Defense, that Tehran is “committed to assisting Syria in the field of air defense.”
On the other hand, the Central Command of the US Army (Centcom) announced the killing of the prominent Iraqi leader in the terrorist organization “ISIS”, Khaled Eid Ahmed al-Jubouri, who was responsible for planning attacks in Europe, in a unilateral strike on Monday in Idlib countryside.
Washington’s announcement came while two civilians were killed on Monday night by an Israeli missile strike that targeted, in an attack that is the fourth of its kind in less than a week, military areas of the Iranian militias, and the regime’s air defense centers in Damascus and the southern region.
Also in the Syrian issue, two French investigative judges ordered, on Tuesday, the start of a trial against three senior officials of the regime, namely: Ali Mamlouk, Jamil Hassan and Abdel Salam Mahmoud… on charges of killing two French-Syrian citizens, Mazen Dabbagh and his son Patrick, who were arrested in 2013. and committing “crimes against humanity”.
In parallel, behind closed doors, the four-way talks between the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Iran and Turkey began in Moscow. To advance the path of normalization between Damascus and Ankara, amid Russian satisfaction, despite the hard-line statements made by the Syrian side.