Assad offers 25 mile buffer zone with Israel

Jerusalem Post:
REPORT: ISRAEL VOWS TO DESTROY IRANIAN POSITIONS WITHIN 40 KM OF SYRIAN BORDER
Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida revealed on Sunday that an Israeli source disclosed a promise from Jerusalem to destroy all Iranian facilities within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Israel's Golan Heights.

The source, who remains unnamed, said that during Syrian President Bashar Assad's surprise visit to Russia last week, Assad gave Russian Premier Vladimir Putin a message for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Damascus will agree to a demilitarized zone of up to 40 kilometers from the border in the Golan Heights as part of a comprehensive agreement between the two countries, but only if Israel does not work to remove Assad's regime from power.
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It looks like Israel is taking the deal for now but using other words to make clear to Iran that its forces will be at risk if they threaten Israel.  I suspect Iran was probably aware of the offer and they realize how tenuous's Assad's hold on Syria remains even with the defeat of ISIS.

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