Yehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, demanded that the negotiations with Bashar al-Assad’s regime be moved to another stage, meaning that they be moved to the stage of direct negotiations between the two parties. This is what Al-Muallem confirmed during his visit to Paris, that he saw no objection to them also moving to direct negotiations, but he implicitly stipulated that they take place. Under direct American and European sponsorship, because the Syrian regime’s eyes are on Washington.
The two parties are talking about progress in these negotiations, which observers agree do not address the issue of withdrawal from the Golan, although it is present, but rather a tactical reformulation of the Israeli relationship with the Syrian regime, and its vision for this relationship, in the foreseeable future!
Leaks began here and there that the regime in Damascus might begin to partially implement Israeli and French demands in Lebanon and Gaza.
At the same time, the Syrian regime is playing with Iranian time, just as Iran is playing with the Syrian future! Because it has become an organic part of Syria's future, through the accumulation of interventionist policies that began more than two decades ago
- Its political, missionary and economic projects in Syria do not need proof - and with the consent of the Syrian regime, which is forced by its need for a strong ally in the region, with which it faces its internal failure first, and its siege second,
We must also acknowledge, as the Syrian opposition, that some European policies have returned to talking about change in them through dialogue with existing regimes and others, and the reason is that they do not see democratic alternatives, as they claim. However, here we must focus our analysis on Iranian policy because it is actually the most dangerous to the future of the region.
The Iranians have been dealing with the same Israeli policy for some time, which is to buy more time, especially in their dealings with the nuclear file, as they always show flexibility in dealing with the demands of the International Atomic Energy Commission and with the demands of the major powers, but without backing down one bit from continuing with their military nuclear program. .
Can the Syrian regime respond to Israeli and French demands in Lebanon?
If the Israeli demands do not want to withdraw Hezbollah's weapons, and the French want to defuse the violence, as they say, how can the two policies be reconciled?
This is why Iran is not worried about these negotiations because in the end it knows that Bashar al-Assad’s regime has no choice but to return to its embrace again. Because without Iran, it has no influence on Hezbollah, and without Iran it cannot continue the policy of fragmentation on the Palestinian level, and without Iran it becomes a weak party with its back exposed in any negotiations. This is what Iranian politics plays out on.
It will not take long for Bashar al-Assad's regime to return to repudiate all the illusions of those who want to isolate it from the mullahs' regime in Tehran. Because in the end, the negotiations that are taking place in reality are Iranian-European-Israeli negotiations
