Media Report for the Seminar: “Regional Developments after the Killing of Soleimani: the Expected Consequences on the Region and the Syrian Issue”
On the third of this month, the general Qasim Soleimani, leader of the Al-Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, was killed alongside Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, the deputy chief of the Popular Mobilization Committee, in a missile strike that targeted their car procession in Baghdad International Airport. Following that, the Pentagon announced that the American president Donald Trump was the one who ordered the operation to kill Qasim Soleimani by air raid in Iraq in a development that opened the doors to all possibilities of escalation in the region and throw light upon the wings and militias of Iran in the region, which could have an effect on the future of Iran’s project in the region.
With the aim of throwing light upon the reason which led to the latest developments in the region between America and Iran, and the reactions from different sides, as well as the next phase and its possible effects, challenges and opportunities for Syrians and how to deal with them to support the Syrian issue, the Syrian Dialogue Center held the “Regional Developments after the Killing of Soleimani: the Expected Consequences on the Region and the Syrian Issue.” The seminar was held on Wednesday, 13 Jumada Al-Awwal 1441/ 8 January 2020 with a number of experts, politicians and activists in the Syrian issue in attendance.
Dr. Sinan Hathat, a researcher at the Omran Center and Sharq Forum and member of the War Studies Unit in the European University of Florence, gave an overview in the first unit of the history in Iranian-American relations after the Iranian Revolution, and focused on the reality of hidden Iranian-American agreements. He then presented the reasons and the events leading up to the latest escalation and the expected repercussions and reactions of Soleimani’s killing in Syria and Iraq and the region in general. He finished his speech by discussing the influence of the latest events on the American elections and in general future American strategies.
Then Dr. Hassan Al-Safdi, a researcher in Political and Sharia affairs, spoke in the second part of the seminar on the evaluation of the positive and negative effects on the Syrian issue, and what Syrians can do to benefit from it in addition to the subject of the Caesar Law. He finished his speech by speaking on some possibilities for Syrians to return to their own decision-making and influence in their own field in light of the lack of any national decision-making and influence and decisions going towards other regional and international countries. He then gave the floor for questions on the latest developments and their influence on the situation in Syria.
مؤسسة بحثية سورية تسعى إلى الإسهام في بناء الرؤى والمعارف بما يساعد السوريين على إنضاج حلول عملية لمواجهة التحديات الوطنية المشتركة وتحقيق التنمية المستدامة
