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Saqr's full interview which came out on Saturday is over an hour long and has over a million views in Arabic but no one appears to have translated all of it into English. Nonetheless, here's how Saudi state media reported on it. From Al Arabiya English, "Syria's ex-media chief reveals al-Assad's escape details, final plea to Putin": Saqr said al-Assad told him that during his meeting with Putin, he requested Russia's assistance in helping Iran transport equipment and support to bolster the regime's defenses against the opposition.The Middle East Eye has more on the Turkey angle: Assad returned to Damascus a week before his eventual fall, according to Saqr.Assad seems to have alienated the Iranians by allegedly making overtures to the US and UAE. ![]() Putin, busy with Ukraine and not wanting to deal with another major war, may have made a deal with HTS to leave Russia's airbases alone, as they've been left untouched so far. "We maintain relations with all the groups that control the situation there [in Syria], with all the countries in the region," Putin said during a press conference on Dec 19. "The overwhelming majority of them tell us that they would be interested in our military bases remaining in Syria." The BBC reported on Dec 18 that satellite images showed Russia "moving a large amount of military equipment in Syria." "Transport aircraft also appear to have arrived and departed the country in recent days," they claimed. Evidently, Assad failed to recognize how easily his government could be toppled if outside aid from a weakened Iran and tied down Russia ceased. Had he listened to Putin and entered negotiations with Erdogan, perhaps Syria could have kept its air defenses and military from being bombed to the Stone Age by Israel and prevented Syria from being reduced to a rump state.
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