According to an exclusive report in the US magazine Foreign Policy, the United States is considering a plan to stay in a military base in Syria to counter Iranian expansion.

Despite US President Donald Trump's pledge last month to withdraw all his troops from Syria, the US government has a plan to keep some troops at a remote US base in southeastern Syria, the al-Tanf base, to counter Iranian influence, Lara Siligman said.

According to the report, the al-Tanf base, located near the eastern border with Jordan, was established to help local forces fight the Islamic state. But this base, which lies along a potential Iranian supply route through Iraq to Syria, has also become a crucial pillar in resisting Iranian influence in the region. .

Foreign Policy quotes a former senior US military commander as saying that the al-Tanf base is crucial to efforts to prevent Iran from establishing a ground line from Iran through Iraq and Syria to southern Lebanon to support Hezbollah.

The importance of the rule
The report adds that the US military presence at the al-Tanf base would hinder Iran's hopes of building a bridge that could threaten Israel.

He points out that the importance is not only related to the strategic location of the military base, but also to the exclusion zone of 55 kilometers around al-Qaeda, which allows US forces the right to defend themselves against Iranian forces or any other forces approaching them.