Tehran

- An unofficial Iranian source close to the Revolutionary Guards revealed - to Al Jazeera Net - that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's recent visit to Tehran came to arrange papers and coordinate after the withdrawal of some Russian units from Syrian territory to participate in the war on Ukraine.

The source - who spoke on condition of anonymity - added that Moscow began withdrawing its forces from about 30 military points, since the beginning of the second month of its war on Ukraine, and that Iranian forces and Hezbollah forces have already replaced Russian units on Syrian territory.

The Iranian source explained that forces from his country and Lebanese Hezbollah settled about a month ago in 3 military points in Idlib governorate and its countryside, and 4 other sites in the south of the capital, Damascus, after the Russian forces were transferred to the Ukrainian front.

Mahdi Shakibai says that the Russian side decided not to leave Ukraine unless in the event of a victory (Al-Jazeera)

Repositioning the Revolutionary Guards

What annoys the Israeli entity most about the repositioning of the Revolutionary Guards forces in Syria - according to the source - the Iranian forces' approach to the common borders and their stability in Daraa and Quneitra in southern Syria, which prompted the Syrian president to visit Tehran to coordinate with the top of the pyramid of power in Iran regarding potential challenges.

For the second time since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met - on Sunday - Iranian guide Ali Khamenei, and discussed - in his previously unannounced visit - strengthening strategic relations between Damascus and Tehran with President Ibrahim Raisi.

In this context, political analyst Mahdi Shkibai described reducing the number of Russian forces in Syria as expected in light of the Ukrainian crisis, and added that the Russian side decided not to leave Ukraine unless in the event of a victory, even if the situation called for the use of unconventional weapons, he said.

Shakibai read - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - Al-Assad's visit to Tehran just days after a visit by the Russian Defense Minister to the Iranian capital, in the framework of coordination between allies to remedy the challenges of the next stage, and revealed another imminent visit by Alexander Novak, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister to meet Iranian officials.

The Iranian researcher believes that the strengthening of Iranian forces in Syria is in line with the prophecy of the founder of the Iranian revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini, regarding the demise of the Israeli occupation, stressing that the winds of the recent diplomatic dispute between Moscow and Tel Aviv are taking place as desired by the resistance ships in the region.

Russian-Israeli relations witnessed a dispute after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Jewish origins of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky do not guarantee the absence of Nazism in his country, adding - in a press statement - that the most anti-Semitic were usually Jews themselves, and suggested that Hitler was of Jewish origin. .

Western Russian encounter

For his part, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Hussein Kanaani Moghadam, explained that what Moscow has done does not mean a complete withdrawal from Syria, but rather a repositioning and transfer of the experienced forces from the calm front in Syria to the hot front in Ukraine, stressing that Russia will supply its bases in Syria. with other forces.

Kanaani Moghadam - in an interview with Al Jazeera Net - described the Iranian-Russian military cooperation on Syrian territory as strategic, referring to a prior Russian-Iranian understanding to support the other in the event of a deficit in their forces on some fronts in Syria.

He believed that the repercussions of the Russian war on Ukraine had begun to reflect positively on the security situation in the Middle East, and he expected Moscow to move in the future to put an end to Western interference in the region in response to the US and European support for Kiev, he said.

And whether the positioning of Iranian forces and Hezbollah in some Syrian areas - especially in the areas from which the Russian forces withdrew - will increase the Israeli raids on Syrian territory, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards said that the Russian side, given its tense relations with the Israeli entity, will work to deter Zionists in the next stage.

Kanaani Moghaddam believes that the repercussions of the Russian war on Ukraine have begun to reflect positively on the security situation in the Middle East (Al-Jazeera)

Signs of visiting a lion

Al-Assad's visit to Tehran bears indications in the timing and files that he dealt with in his talks with Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei and President Ibrahim Raisi.

Perhaps the most prominent of these is support for the Palestinian struggle in the face of the Israeli occupation, according to political analyst Hassan Hanizadeh.

Hani Zadeh explained - to Al-Jazeera Net - that Al-Assad's talks in Tehran focused on 4 axes, the most important of which is the inauguration of a new phase in Iranian-Syrian relations and joint work to rebuild what was destroyed by the global war on Syria for more than 11 years.

With the intensification of the security situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the prospects of a new war between the resistance factions and the occupying entity, coordination between Tehran and Damascus occupied a large part of the discussions in Tehran - and Hani Zadeh spoke - in addition to bilateral coordination after the prolongation of the Russian war on Ukraine.

Hani Zadeh concluded that the fourth axis of the Iranian-Syrian talks dealt with the desire of some Arab countries printing with the Israeli occupation to strengthen their relations with Damascus.