{"id":3646,"date":"2018-06-02T22:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2018-06-02T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T22:30:03","slug":"iran-supports-russia-to-bring-syria-under-army-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/02\/iran-supports-russia-to-bring-syria-under-army-control\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAN SUPPORTS RUSSIA TO BRING SYRIA UNDER ARMY CONTROL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/06\/SYRIAN-ARMY-e1527978506485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/06\/SYRIAN-ARMY-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Middle East Eye<\/p>\n<p>Iran supports a Russian-led effort to impose Syrian government control over the south of Syria, a senior Iranian security official was cited as saying on Saturday, amid reports that Damascus is preparing a major military offensive in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Russia said last week that only Syrian army troops should be on the country&#8217;s southern border with Jordan and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian government forces, in their strongest position since the early months of the seven-year conflict, have driven rebels out of all territory near the capital Damascus this year.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks there have been reports that the government&#8217;s next target would be the zone in the south, one of only two large areas left in the hands of fighters seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/iran-says-it-supports-russian-efforts-bring-south-syria-under-army-control-1269576889<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Middle East Eye Iran supports a Russian-led effort to impose Syrian government control over the south of Syria, a senior Iranian security official was cited as saying on Saturday, amid reports that Damascus is preparing a major military offensive in the area. Russia said last week that only Syrian army troops should be on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/02\/iran-supports-russia-to-bring-syria-under-army-control\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRAN SUPPORTS RUSSIA TO BRING SYRIA UNDER ARMY CONTROL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}