Could Egyptian Support Tip the Balance in Syria's Favor?
However, analysts say that Egypt has every reason to join the Syrian war on the side of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
Just recently, the Egyptian and Syrian governments resumed diplomatic contacts that were brought to a screeching halt in 2012, when toppled Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In late October , Cairo officially joined the group of states that are seeking ways to pursue reconciliation in Syria within the Vienna framework. In particular, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, called Secretary of state John Kerry to involve the Egyptian delegation in peace talks. Syrian media sources have been vocal recently about the new security cooperation agreement that Cairo and Damascus just signed during the visit of the Syrian National Security Bureau chief, Ali Mamlouk, to Cairo.
Earlier, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed support for his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with Portuguese television RTP, President al-Sisi called the current Syrian government consistent in its the fight against terrorism in Syria and restoring stability in the strife-torn country.
In November, Egypt intensified contacts with one of the most active allies of Damascus – Iran, with which it maintained somewhat strained relations with after the military coup in Egypt that brought down President Morsi, which among other offenses, was accused of spying for Iran. According to a number of unconfirmed reports, Egyptian oil minister Tariq al-Mulla made a very unusual trip to Iran, which was considered a longtime enemy of Egypt.
At the same time, it is noted that Egypt’s relations with Saudi Arabia and Qatar are rapidly deteriorating, since Cairo suspects the latter to be financing terrorism in Sinai. This encourages Egypt’s foreign policy to establish contacts with opponents of Riyadh. However, such a shift in Egypt’s foreign policy has already caused outrage across media outlets of Persian Gulf controlled media sources, which were directly supported by the French agency AFP.
The reactionary monarchies, just like France and a number of the White House’s allies in Europe, are fully aware of the fact that Egypt’s involvement in the Syrian war on the side of Bashar al-Assad can change the strategic balance in favor of Syria in a pivotal way, which was clearly not planned by the US nor its geopolitical proxies.
Jean Périer is an independent researcher and analyst and a renowned expert on the Near and Middle East, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”
Source: http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2016/12/could-egyptian-support-tip-balance-in.html
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