“Both sides are trying to establish their own rules of the game, especially Iran, who wants to show that since the Assad victory in Aleppo, Israel cannot hope to operate as freely as before in Syria,” Michael Horowitz, a Middle East specialist at Bahrain-based consultancy LeBeck International, explains to L’Orient Le Jour, recalling that last September, an Iranian drone was also shot down in Israel two weeks after an Israeli strike near the Syrian coast.
“It is, therefore, quite possible that the sending of the Iranian drone represents both a response from Tehran to the strike against the Jamraya research center, but also to the Israeli efforts to mobilize Russia to contain the ambitions of its partner in Syria.”ill probably continue and pro-regime forces will probably be able to continue to advance on Saraqeb,” he said.
Le Beck talks to BILD (DE) about Syria
Senior Regional Security Analyst (RSA) Michael Horowitz spoke to German-language BILD about the Turkish intervention in Syria and a possible agreement between the YPG and Assad regime.
Read the full article in German here