Syria dictator Bashar Assad caught between Iran and Israel

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  1. This article doesn’t really cover all of the details.

    A senior security official told the Saudi website [Elaph](https://elaph.com/Web/News/2024/10/1551204.html) that Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad has only two options, to continue the alliance with the Iranian axis on any scale and lose power or join the “Arab environment” and improve his relations with Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia, in order to remain in power.

    The same senior security official, who “operates in the Middle East”, said that “Israel recently threatened Bashar al-Assad and demanded that he take practical steps against the Iranian axis and especially against Hezbollah.”

    According to the publication, the Syrian army recently forced the members of Hezbollah to evacuate the sites “Altalaye” and “Khomeini”, which are located close to the city of Zabadani, close to the Lebanese border.

    In “Elaph” it was reported that the evacuation was carried out at the request of Israel before they attacked them, because there are warehouses of weapons and equipment, which were prepared for delivery to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

    It was also stated in the publication that “there is a dispute between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his office and the fourth division of the Syrian army under the command of his brother – Maher al-Assad.”

    The latter refuses to give up the assistance of the Iranian axis and matters between the two deteriorated into threats and intimidation. It was also reported that the Syrian ruler asked his brother to come to the meeting to decide on the issue and he refused.

    In “Elaph” it was also reported that Israel had already warned the Syrian leader Maher al-Assad recently, and attacked one of his farms in the Damascus area, which forced him to “lower his profile”. There are reports that he moved to the town of Qardaha in Latakia province in western Syria.

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