(Wall Street Journal) Jonathan Spyer - Israel has undertaken at least 200 air raids against Iranian targets in Syria since 2017. But air power is applicable only to certain tasks. The Iranian project in Syria is deep and multifaceted. Iran is engaged in a broad effort designed to merge the structures under its command with the Syrian state itself, intending to implant a "deep state," under its control, within the existing state machinery. Will Russia seriously undertake to secure Israel's objective of a complete Iranian exit from Syria? Almost certainly not. It is also questionable whether the Russians (or Assad) even have the ability to uproot the entrenched Iranian presence in Syria. The writer is director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis.
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