Assad shows strength to pro-terrorists: Commentator

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ryan Dawson, commentator and author from Nara, Japan, to discuss Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s new remarks on the ongoing cessation of hostilities in the Arab country.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: We’re looking at a few days here, a couple of hiccups, well, may be more than a couple, but still for the majority holding, do you think the ceasefire is going to have the sustainability in order to bring about perhaps a political solution following its success were to have one?

Dawson: Well, I want to hope so, but the previous ceasefires in the past just served as a time period for the opposition Syrian groups to continue attacking. I’m still away on this humanitarian aid that was promised to be delivered and we saw the Turks of course already violating the ceasefire several times.

So, I think it’s good that Bashar al-Assad is showing strength; its very needs to be doing. And I think the Russians have called for the perfect move to close the border between Syria and Turkey, because does these supplies. If the moderate rebels are supposedly in a ceasefire and it’s only a battle between al-Nusra and ISIS (Daesh) and their government; then, why should the border be open, because they shouldn’t be aiding ISIS and al-Nusra, right? So, I’m not sure what excuse Turkey will have to keep the border open.

Press TV: Well, since you talked about that Turkey didn’t sign out to this ceasefire agreement, they have said, they’re going to cross border shell the YPG Kurds in the northern part of Syria, in Aleppo. Do you think that Turkey at this point given the fact that their gamble has not paid off, especially when it comes to the US support, wants the ceasefire not to work?

Dawson: They don’t want the ceasefire to work. Turkey has been financing and funding ISIS the entire time. They’re embedding and feeding from the black market oil trade as well. Yet, Turkey was not part of the ceasefire agreement, but I wasn’t fine that the US should agree the Russians if they’re sincere in saying that they are willing through the moderate rebels or terrorists to step down.

Then, why the border is open between Syria and Turkey, because they obviously funneling arms and to groups that if they are part of the ceasefire should not be receiving arms or everything.

Press TV: Unless that may be part of the plan because this whole ceasefire was brought about by listing some the terrorist organizations of which the UN submitted a list or a list was submitted to it approved by the UN. And it’s interesting a ceasefire that allows obviously the Jabhat al-Nusra and the Daesh terrorists to be targeted. It did exclude one of the major terrorist groups that is backed by Saudi Arabia, Jaysh al-Islam. Why do you think that group was excluded?

Dawson: Because Saudi Arabia has a lot of influence. There was also Ahrar al-Sham was excluded and they’ve been getting al-Qaeda operatives out of prison in 2013 so. And there’s nothing also to prevent these terrorists from simply switching hats and say: ‘OK, I’m not in this group, I’m in this other group.’ And they just continue fighting. It was kind of a silly. There wasn’t really clear language. The best thing about the ceasefire agreement was this promise to bring in humanitarian aid, which is desperately needed. That’s what I want to see happen before the Turks end up blowing the entire agreement apart.

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