{"id":12136,"date":"2015-09-11T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2015-09-11T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:57:38","slug":"be-our-guest-russia-warns-washington-of-unintended-incidents-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12136","title":{"rendered":"“Be Our Guest”: Russia Warns Washington Of “Unintended Incidents” In Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Be Our Guest”: Russia Warns Washington Of “Unintended Incidents” In Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n

On Thursday evening, we chronicled the latest in the drama that is Syria\u2019s horrific civil war, noting that,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0an Israeli defense source, \u201chundreds\u201d of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards are on the ground in Syria fighting alongside the Russians to support Bashar al-Assad\u2019s depleted forces as they battle to regain control of the country.<\/p>\n

If true, that would answer the following question which we\u2019ve been asking for quite some time:\u00a0will Iran remain on the sidelines and allow the Houthis to be routed in Yemen and Assad deposed in Syria, or will Tehran, like Moscow, finally decide that the time for rhetoric has come to an end?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reports of Iranian involvement come on the heels of rampant speculation about the scope of Russia\u2019s military buildup near Latakia where US \u201cintelligence\u201d and a series of unnamed \u201cLebanese sources\u201d claim Moscow is essentially preparing for a full-on push to rout any and all domestic opposition to the Assad regime. The question, of course, is what happens when foreign opposition to the Assad regime isn\u2019t willing to accept the restoration of the strongman\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n

Predictably, there\u2019s been no shortage of back-and-forth banter between John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov over the past several days. Here’s how Lavrov\u00a0characterizes the exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cKerry was also pushing the very strange idea that supporting Bashar Assad in his anti-terror fight only strengthens the positions of ISIS, because the sponsors of ISIS would pump even more arms and money into it,\u201d<\/strong>Lavrov said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIt’s an absolutely upside-down logic and yet another attempt to appease those who use terrorists to fight dissenting regimes,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>the Russian FM said, mentioning US attempts to cooperate with varrious extremist groups in Syria over the past few years.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a colossal mistake that the US-led [anti-ISIS] coalition never considered interaction with Syria, not even information exchange,\u201d Lavrov said. \u201cI cannot comprehend this logic, or rather absolute lack of logic.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Be Our Guest”: Russia Warns Washington Of “Unintended Incidents” In Syria On Thursday evening, we chronicled the latest in the drama that is Syria\u2019s horrific civil war, noting that,\u00a0according to\u00a0an Israeli defense source, \u201chundreds\u201d of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards are on the ground in Syria fighting alongside the Russians to support Bashar al-Assad\u2019s depleted forces as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,441,1239,446,447,8763,8764,694,776,827,4318],"class_list":["post-12136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-assad","tag-iran","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-kerry","tag-lavrov","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}