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The scene changed when Tire, Asma al-Assad, began to compete with photographs of her husband, Bashar al-Assad, and her father, Hafez. It is present in the streets in a notable media boom.
The uprising of the paintings of Asma al-Assad along with the paintings of her husband in the center of the country was not a passing affair. Rather, it opened a wide door to talk about the new stage that Syria entered, especially the narrow circle of the Assad family, which, according to observers, is today at a crossroads, and a complete restoration of the previous structure that It was upon her, and this is what appeared to be the ongoing conflict between Assad and his cousin Rami Makhlouf, which continues to this day.
The stage, although its details are still unclear based on the general security and military reality of Syria, but some of its steps have been made public, especially in the last four months, whose title was the remarkable rise of the names of Assad. The “first lady”, as she is described, has become a daily occurrence for the Syrian regime media, with her travels and visits accompanying Bashar from the regions of the Syrian coast, to economic facilities and exhibitions in the capital, Damascus.
On almost monthly visits to coastal towns, where the popular environment incubates most of her husband’s supporters.
Asma al-Asad al-Akhras is demonstrating her right to polish her husband’s shattered photos due to the feverish conflict she inherited within the ruling family and the legacy of the conflict between the Makhloufs and the Assad family, in which Asma sheds light on fears in favor of his authority. pic.twitter.com/JslPY0fnPm– Izack-Akkad (@zakomlta) November 6, 2020
There are many reports that addressed the rise of Asma al-Assad in the recent period, and the reasons behind it, especially at the current moment Syria is going through, four months before the presidential elections, but only a part may have to be examined. , especially those related to the economic role that Su game and the information related to it is the main engine to seize the money of Rami Makhlouf, and the rest of the businessmen, who are classified in the lists of “rich in war”.
According to a follow-up carried out by Al-Hurra during last October and November, Asma Al-Assad appeared in the media more than seven times, mostly in villages and towns exposed to fires on the Syrian coast.
Her last appearance was on December 8, during a meeting with several Syrian students, and before that she appeared alongside her husband, the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, at the 2020 Productions Exhibition in Sulaymaniyah Tekkiye in the capital. Damascus, and at that time Assad linked the causes of the economic crisis in the country. With the funds held in Lebanese banks.
The aforementioned rise of al-Assad’s wife has not been witnessed in recent years, during which Asmaa was limited to going out with only a few cultural visits, or related to the wounded of the regime forces, in different provinces.
The point that cannot be separated or neutralized is that the media rise of Asma al-Assad was linked to an economic campaign launched by the Ministry of Finance in the government of the Syrian regime, with the seizure of funds from officials and businessmen, accused To eliminate corruption, the last of whom was the former governor of the Damascus camp, Alaa Munir Ibrahim, and it seems that he will not do so. Be the last.
According to three cross sources, the rise of Asma al-Assad to the fore “is not in vain”, but is part of a broad campaign that is being carried out economically for Syria, in which he began to work ago. about a year and a half.
The sources, who asked not to be identified, said that “Asma al-Assad has formed a committee called (Recovery of money from the corrupt and the merchants of the crisis) and since that period, and this committee has one goal: to collect the funds collected by a series of officials and businessmen classified as war merchants, within a drawn map “. .
The map drawn on which the committee is being executed, and formed by Asma al-Assad, is part of the processes that the sources described as “settlement”, which affected dozens of businessmen, with Rami Makhlouf at the head, and from Days ago, the governor of the Damascus countryside, Alaa Munir Ibrahim, now leads Daraa governorate officials, most notably the former governor, Muhammad Khalid al-Hanous.
The sources did not specify the objectives that Asma al-Assad wanted from this campaign, and if they were part of the entire operation of the Syrian regime, but they considered that this step “is in the interest of the latter in one way or another, and prepares it for the next phase, which will be difficult economically ”.
The sources, who reside in one of them in the capital, Damascus, stated: “The arrangement is to recover the money that businessmen and former officials of the regime obtained in recent years, after seizing their money in its entirety, provided that the condition for his release is to pay the sums of money determined after an agreement between the two parties “.
The campaign led by the Asma Al-Assad-led “Fund Recovery Committee” advances gradually and in short intervals, as recent months have shown, with reserve reserves arriving in hierarchical order and in short intervals.
There is an unresolved question related to when Asma al-Assad began collecting money from the “war rich”, especially after ten years in which they had accumulated a lot, under the eyes of the Syrian regime and sometimes his administration.
According to sources, the current moment is linked to several paths, the most prominent of which is the need for funds from the regime in this “difficult stage”, and on the one hand this may be linked to the directives of Russia, which preceded and they criticized their media harshly against the Assad regime and some “corrupt” figures in it, on the one hand. They were led by former Prime Minister Imad Muhammad Khamis.
There may be several alternative figures for Asma al-Assad in the Syrian regime who would lead such an economic campaign, but this issue is governed by several limitations, analysts said.
The writer and journalist Bassam Youssef says: “The Syrian regime, for several months, and after closing the exits to the military solution, went to a plan of” economic reforms “sponsored by the Russians.
The reform plan requires the regime to hold on to a financial bloc, according to Youssef, who continues: “The role of Asma al-Assad came in this direction, and therefore the recovered financial bloc would be confined to a position not of strength, but within the Assad family. “
Yusef, a native of the Syrian coast, explains that Asma al-Assad currently plays a purely economic role, ruling out that he has any political role.
The exclusion of Asma from the political role, Yusuf sees logic due to the presence of several obstacles, the first of which is the Alawite incubator who loves Bashar al-Assad and is not satisfied with the arrival of others to power, in addition to the inability of Bashar al-Assad to liquidate the centers of power, indicating that the Syrian arena has become common, for example when a political decision is made What the Russians can accept and the Iranians reject.
The Syrian writer confirms that Asma’s role is an economist, and she is currently employed as a center for recovering capitals, in order to prepare the Assad family for margin, movement and power in the next stage.
There are few political statements by Asma al-Assad, who in the last years of the Syrian war formed several stages of its own, the first of which was the silence at the beginning of the events of the Syrian revolution, which emerged after four years the start of military operations in support of Assad’s forces and the wounded.
She remained in the above until August 2018, which is considered a defining moment in her character, since she announced at the time that she had breast cancer, which would be cured in less than a year, and here she began her journey in a big way, to give an image that she is the “strong” woman who came out of War and disease at the same time for the new future of Syria.
Asma al-Assad is included in the US sanctions list, under the Caesar Act, as Washington imposed sanctions on her in June this year, attributing them to her being “the biggest beneficiary of the Syrian war with the support of her husband and members of the notorious Al-Akhras family. “
Syrian dissident Ayman Abdel Nour called the issue of Asma al-Assad “profound”, saying in statements: “Since 2016, there have been proposals and demands that the names of the alternative be for various considerations, the first of which is to reduce Sunni tension, and the second on the background of his relationship with the West and his experience in the administration. “
And Abdel Nour, who lives in Washington, continues: “Asma reflects a female face, and has several issues that benefit her. She is a mother who suffered and supported her husband. She is considered an acceptable media face and improves the discourse with the West. in their own language. “
After the year 2016, and after the aforementioned claims, Abdel Nour indicated that the powers and tasks of Asma al-Assad began to escalate, so the works began to remove the economic power of the Makhlouf family, in succession.
At present, the orders of Bashar al-Assad’s wife are limited only to the economic, tourist and cultural sectors, away from the military and security side, and according to the Syrian opposition, work is currently being carried out by Asma al -Assad to establish groups of officers loyal to her.
In parallel to the above, Asma al-Assad works to win and polarize the “Alawite Incubator”, which appeared in his recent series of visits to towns and cities on the Syrian coast, after agricultural crops were damaged in them after the fires that raged across the region for weeks.
The attraction of the “incubator” on the Syrian coast is taking place on more than one side, and one of them was represented by financial aid, which the “Al-Areen Foundation” led by Asma Al-Assad began to distribute aid financial support to those affected by the fires. In addition, the aforementioned institution had taken over the centers affiliated with the “Bustan Association”. By Rami Makhlouf, in Latakia governorate, in June of this year.
According to Syrian opposition figure Ayman Abdel Nour, Asma al-Assad’s continued rise is linked to acceptance by people loyal to the Syrian regime and his success in attracting loyalty, especially from the Alawites.
Abd al-Nur considers that “Asma al-Assad has reserved his place in power and orders and also in the dual government, especially in the civil and economic sector”, indicating that the Syrian regime is benefiting from these movements as it eases the pressure on him and absorbs some of the hatred against him. As for the international level, Asmaa Al-Assad has an international dimension, according to Abdel Nour, who believes that he is “working to change the image of Assad’s Syria, respectively.”
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