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Not the first ISI president to say this.\u00a0 Will he be the last?\u00a0 \u201cPresident Pezeshkian says Iran wants peace with region,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0The story has it right\u2014\u201cPezeshkian\u2019s call for diplomacy stands in contrast to the Supreme Leader\u2019s persistent rejection of normalization with the West and Israel, suggesting that Iran\u2019s pursuit of peace may remain contingent upon maintaining its ideological and geopolitical conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Update, December 26, 2024,\u201d<\/a> Critical Threats, 12-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran is also making remarks that risk stoking sectarian tension. Senior Iranian officials, including the supreme leader, have repeatedly suggested that the Syrian youth will \u201crise up\u201d in Syria.[xiii] The Iranian supreme leader compared these \u201cSyrian youth\u201d to the Iraqi militia groups that systematically hunted down and killed Sunni civilians in Baghdad as part of a campaign of sectarian cleansing in Iraq.[xiv] Core HTS fighters from Jabhat al Nusra and al Qaeda in Iraq, like Shara, are intimately familiar with the Iraqi context and would presumably read \u201cSyrian youth\u201d as a much more sectarian call than it immediately appears. Sectarian Iranian remarks would provide an opening for Sunni sectarian elements in Syria to portray all Alawites and Shia as pro-Iranian proxies to justify a violent crackdown. Syrian Foreign Affairs Minister Asaad Hassan al Shaibani responded to these Iranian statements. He warned Iran against \u201cspreading chaos in Syria\u201d and stated that Syria will hold Iran \u201caccountable for the repercussions of [its] latest remarks,\u201d likely referring to ongoing rhetoric from senior Iranian officials suggesting that Syrian youth will \u201crise up\u201d in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good news.\u00a0 Lebanon has to pivot from Iran and Hezbollah’s influence and control.\u00a0 \u201cLebanese army chief visits Saudi Arabia to discuss military cooperation,\u201d<\/a> AA, 12-26-24.<\/p>\n

This headline is funny.\u00a0 The only ones making this announcement are in the Crescent with the proxy the Houthis.\u00a0 No other countries or groups agree.\u00a0 \u201cIran, Hamas and Hezbollah denounce Israeli airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-26-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not the first ISI president to say this.\u00a0 Will he be the last?\u00a0 \u201cPresident Pezeshkian says Iran wants peace with region,\u201d Iran International, 12-26-24.\u00a0\u00a0The story has it right\u2014\u201cPezeshkian\u2019s call for diplomacy stands in contrast to the Supreme Leader\u2019s persistent rejection of normalization with the West and Israel, suggesting that Iran\u2019s pursuit of peace may remain … <\/p>\n

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