{"id":2870,"date":"2021-10-24T13:03:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2021-10-24T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T10:04:07","slug":"russia-and-iran-the-search-for-a-point-of-balance-between-attraction-and-repulsion-factors-in-syria-a-framework-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/2021\/10\/2870\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Iran\u2026 The Search for a &#8220;point of balance&#8221; between attraction and repulsion factors in Syria\u2026 A Framework Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia and Iran are among the most important actors of the Syrian war, two supportive allies of President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime, and the two main actors he was able to rely on in the war, and perhaps &#8211; of course, there are other factors &#8211; the main reason for his stay in power and his continuation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But standing by Syria was the result of many factors, foremost of which was the response to a sudden and unprecedented threat perception. And because the event initially centered around the &#8220;overthrow of the president&#8221;, it seemed that both sides supported him. Perhaps they thought -for some time- of looking for an alternative replacing him, and so did the United States, but things have settled down for him, so far; Rather, the position on it almost intensifies the Syrian event, in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In light of the discussion about tensions, rivalries, and sometimes conflicts, between Russia and Iran in Syria, which has a lot of truth, and a lot of \u201cideology\u201d and \u201cdesire\u201d as well, the paper tries to \u201ctake other paths\u201d in reading and analysis, as objectively as possible, however, it is difficult for a reader or writer who sees that there are aspects of the Syrian event that developments do not reveal, but rather make them more ambiguous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper proceeds from the fact that the situation between Russia and Iran in Syria requires a kind of parallel policies, \u201ctransition lines\u201d in policies and stakes, a complex measure to compel reality, and a balance between the forces, interests, and estimations of the various parties, for example, entering into interactions (pull-push) with opposing parties or parties on both sides of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and Iran are among the most important actors of the Syrian war, two supportive allies of President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime, and the two main actors he was able to rely on in the war, and perhaps &#8211; of course, there are other factors &#8211; the main reason for his stay in power and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[912,877,31,68,54,53],"class_list":{"0":"post-2870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-policy-international-affairs","8":"category-research-papers","9":"tag-assad","10":"tag-combating-terrorism","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-syria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/8376t4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y2nv-Ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}