{"id":23854,"date":"2017-05-05T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23854"},"modified":"2017-05-05T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:22:44","slug":"russia-iran-turkey-ban-us-planes-above-syrian-safe-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23854","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Iran, Turkey Ban US Planes Above Syrian “Safe Zones”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia, Iran, Turkey Ban US Planes Above Syrian “Safe Zones”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Russia said it\u2019s ready to send peacekeepers to Syria after Turkey and Iran agreed on Thursday to Russia’s proposal for “de-escalation zones” in Syria<\/strong>. The move, welcomed by the United Nations, has been met with scepticism from the United States as the so-called safe-zones will closed for warplanes of the United States and those of the U.S.-led coalition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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As Bloomberg reports<\/em><\/a>, the three countries signed a memorandum on the creation of so-called de-escalation areas on Thursday<\/strong>after two days of talks in Kazakhstan that also included representatives of the Syrian government and rebel groups. \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Opposition leaders distanced themselves from the plan, saying they can\u2019t accept Iran as a guarantor of the truce and that they want \u201cclear and tangible\u201d guarantees the deal will be enforced.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. also expressed doubts, as State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Thursday that the U.S. has \u201cconcerns\u201d about the accord, \u201cincluding the involvement of Iran as a so-called \u201cguarantor,\u201d\u2019 <\/strong>and said Russia should do more to stop violence.<\/p>\n

The four safe zones to be established in Syria will be closed for flights by US-led coalition warplanes, said the Russian envoy to the Astana peace talks, where the zones were agreed upon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRussia is ready to send its observers\u201d to help enforce the safe zones,<\/strong><\/em> President Vladimir Putin\u2019s envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, told reporters in the Kazakh capital, Astana. \u201cWe believe the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through political methods.\u201d<\/div>\n

\u201cAs for [the coalition] actions in the de-escalation zones, starting from now those zones are closed for their flights,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Aleksandr Levrentyev told journalists in the Kazakh capital.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Russian Ministry of Defense notes that the deal on safe zones in Syria wil come into effect 21:00 GMT on May 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Russia, Iran, Turkey Ban US Planes Above Syrian “Safe Zones” Russia said it\u2019s ready to send peacekeepers to Syria after Turkey and Iran agreed on Thursday to Russia’s proposal for “de-escalation zones” in Syria. The move, welcomed by the United Nations, has been met with scepticism from the United States as the so-called safe-zones will […]<\/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":[441,694,776,818,827,4318],"class_list":["post-23854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854","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=23854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23855,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854\/revisions\/23855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}