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In the city of Homs and last October, there was a rare scene in Syria, which has been ruled by the Assad family for decades, where citizens are used to seeing photos of the father and son Assad in the streets and on doors. schools and government departments, but it appears that this rule has been broken by hands not outsiders. From inside.
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.
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 His game and information related to that 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 of war”.
Committee that manages for “Money Refunds”
According to a follow-up carried out by the “Al-Hurra” website during the months of October and November, Asma Al-Assad appeared in the media more than seven times, especially in towns and cities that were exposed to fires in the area. Syrian coast.
Her last appearance was on December 8, while 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 Tekiya in the capital, Damascus, and at that time Assad linked the causes of the economic crisis in the country with money. 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 what three sources crossed in statements to the Al-Hurra website, Asma Al-Assad’s rise to the forefront “is not in vain”, but is part of a broad campaign that is being carried out at the level. economic for Syria, where he started working about a year and a half ago.
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 merchants of the crisis) and since that period, this committee has one objective: to collect the funds collected by a series of officials and businessmen classified as war merchants, within a drawn map. .
“Solve” differently
The map drawn up on which the committee is operating and formed by Asma al-Assad is part of the processes that the sources described as “settlement”, which affected dozens of businessmen, led by Rami Makhlouf. Daraa, especially the former governor, Muhammad Khalid al-Hanous.
The sources did not specify the objectives that Asma al-Assad wants from this campaign, and if they are 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 live in one of them in the capital, Damascus, said: “The arrangement is to recover the money that businessmen and former regime officials obtained in recent years, after seizing their money in its entirety, provided that the condition for his release is to pay sums of money determined after an agreement between the two parties ”.
Time raises questions
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 the time when Asma al-Assad began collecting money from the “rich in war”, especially after ten years in which they had accumulated a lot, under the eyes of the Syrian regime and sometimes, of your 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 phase ” and, on the one hand, this may be related to the directives of Russia, who preceded and criticized their media harshly against the Assad regime and some “ corrupt ” figures in it. They were led by the former prime minister, Imad Muhammad Khamis.
Why Asma Al-Assad?
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 determinants, analysts told Al-Hurra.
The writer and journalist Bassam Youssef tells Al-Hurra that the Syrian regime has been for several months, and after closing the exits to the military solution, it has resorted to a Russian-sponsored plan of “economic reforms”.
The regime’s reform plan requires it to maintain a financial bloc, according to Youssef, who continues: “Asma al-Assad’s role came in this direction, and therefore the recovered financial bloc is limited 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.
“The story goes back to 2016.”
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 decisive 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, according to the Caesar Act, since Washington imposed sanctions on her in June this year, attributing it to her being “ the greatest beneficiary of the Syrian war with the support of her husband and members of the notorious Al-Akhras family. ”
Syrian dissident Ayman Abdel Nour described the case of Asma al-Assad as “profound” and said in statements to “Al-Hurra”: “Since 2016, there have been proposals and demands that the alternative of Asmaa be for various considerations , the first of which is to reduce Sunni tension, and the second on the background of its relationship with the West. And his administrative experience. “
And Abdel Nour, who lives in Washington, continues: “Asma reflects a feminine face and has several issues that interest 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.
“She reserved her place in power.”
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 takes place on more than one side, and one of them was represented by financial assistance, 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 Al-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 the dual government as well, 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, but internationally, Asmaa Al-Assad has an international dimension, according to Abdel Nour, who believes he is “working to change the image of Assad’s Syria, respectively. “.
Source: Free
