(MENAFN- Trend News Agency ) Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20
By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:
Iran and Turkey will highly probably be party to a final agreement between Russia and the United States over Syria, a political affairs expert believes.
'According to a preliminary agreement between the US and Russia, a coalition government was to be created, which would then be put to public vote,' Davod Hermidas Bavand, a university professor and international relations analyst, told Trend November 20.
Syrian army soldiers, backed by pro-government fighters from popular defense groups, last week fully liberated a strategic city in Syria's eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr and on the border with Iraq from "Islamic State" (IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh).
The recapture of the areas means that IS now controls only a few villages along the Euphrates and patches of nearby desert in addition to isolated pockets in other parts of Syria.
With "Islamic State" crushed and the opposition to Assad also in military retreat, the three key regional powers – Russia, Iran and Turkey – will meet in Russia's Sochi on Wednesday to discuss how to wind down hostilities and draw up a political settlement.
Bavand believes that the presence of the US with different views than those held by Moscow will complicate a final agreement on Syria.
However, as political integrity was secured in Iraq, now worries over the disintegration of Syria have subsided, he said, adding 'it remains to be seen whether the to-be coalition government holds, which depends on how the parties cooperate.'
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