Assad’s government claims victory because of Russian deal

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (Source: Agência Brasil, Wikipedia)

Some believe that the current discussions about giving up chemical weapons will strengthen Syria’s President Assad:

September 15, 2013

(Reuters) – Syria’s government hailed as a “victory” a Russian-brokered deal that has averted U.S. strikes, while President Barack Obama defended a chemical weapons pact that the rebels fear has bolstered their enemy in the civil war.

President Bashar al-Assad’s jets and artillery hit rebel suburbs of the capital again on Sunday in an offensive that residents said began last week when Obama delayed air strikes in the face of opposition from Moscow and his own electorate.

Speaking of the U.S.-Russian deal, Syrian minister Ali Haidar told Moscow’s RIA news agency: “These agreements … are a victory for Syria, achieved thanks to our Russian friends.”…

Obama dismissed critics of his quick-changing tactics on Syria for focusing on “style” not substance. And while thanking Putin for pressing his “client the Assad regime” to disarm, he chided Russia for questioning Assad’s guilt over the gas attack.

Responding to concerns, notably in Israel, that a display of American weakness toward Assad could encourage his Iranian backers to develop nuclear weapons, Obama said Tehran’s nuclear program was a “far larger issue” for him than Assad’s toxins. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/15/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE98A15720130915

September 15, 2013

BEIRUT (AP) — A high-ranking Syrian official called the U.S.-Russian agreement on securing Syria’s chemical weapons a “victory” for President Bashar Assad’s regime, but the U.S. warned Sunday “the threat of force is real” if Damascus fails to carry out the plan.

The comments by Syrian Minister of National Reconciliation Ali Haidar to a Russian state news agency were the first by a senior Syrian government official on the deal struck a day earlier in Geneva. Under the agreement, Syria will provide an inventory of its chemical arsenal within one week and hand over all of the components of its program by mid-2014. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/15/syria-weapons-deal-victory/2816731/

September 15, 2013

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the U.S.-Russian agreement to strip Syria of chemical weapons has put the world in “a better position” to avoid further chemical attacks. The president, in a television interview aired Sunday, says the situation in Syria is “untenable” as long as President Bashar al-Assad holds power…U.S. lawmakers have varied reactions to the agreement. Republican Senator John McCain called it “an act of provocative weakness.” Other Republicans and Democrats want a deal to avert U.S. military action. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-russia-take-major-step-forward-on-syria-crisis/1750023.html

The USA originally called for the destruction of all Syrian chemical weapons by last week to avert military action. Now, Syria has close to a year to come up with an inventory list of what it has. Syrian considers this an important victory.

However, any ‘victory’ that the Assad regime is having is temporal. Syria will change. Eventually Syria, and others in the Middle East and North Africa, will become supporters of the future King of the South (Daniel 11:40-43) and be aligned with Egypt per Ezekiel 30:1-9.

Russia, with all of this, has shown that it does not abandon its allies as fast as the USA has done (such as Hosni Mubarak to cite one example).

The current deal may extend Syrian President Bashar Assad’s reign, increase Russian influence, and impact USA credibility, but the time will come when Bashar Assad will change, die, or be exiled. The USA still wants him out, also.

The situation with Iran, Syria’s closest ally, will change as well.

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