TEHRAN - What is awaiting Syria is uncertain offered the history of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other groups that conquered significant Syrian cities one after another in a very short time and fell the government of Syrian President Bashar a-Assad.
There is a hope that the peoples jubilance over the fall of the Assad federal government will not be temporary.It has been shown that a nonreligious and despotic system is preferable to an unorthodox ideological ruling system.That is why what is stated about the HTS that it has taken a departure from its dark past alliance with al-Qaida holds true and would not be tactical.Naturally, opposition groups that have ousted the Assad government have divergent views and choices.
Nevertheless, if they fail to reconcile their views when it comes to governance the problems will start there.What is important is that thehopes of the Syrian people for gender equality, observation of the inalienable rights of ethnic and religious minorities, and political reforms need to not be turned into despair.The world observed how the post-Saddam Iraq deteriorated into chaos after the US intrusion of the nation in 2003 and the nation became a haven for terrorists and revenge versus each other due to Washingtons miscalculations and ill-advised strategies.The Syrians have suffered incredibly because March 2011, when the voices for democracy under the influence of the Arab Spring became a civil war.
The heavy-handed treatment of the protestors by the Assad forces coupled with the abuse of the circumstance by interventionist countries, specifically Turkey, pushed the nation into chaos.The situation started getting worse in Syria as terrorists from different countries put into Syria from Turkey and utilized Syria as a battlefield for their resentment.
It was because of this circumstance that Daesh (ISIL/ISIL) was born in 2014 and its violent acts superseded other terrorist groups such as al-Qaida.
Summarily speaking, what was called the Arab Spring developed into the Arab Winter.The bitter events in the previous two decades in Iraq and Syria and partially in Libya are before our eyes.
Now, if the main players in post-Assad Syria do not get lessons from these bitter occasions they should await unwanted occasions.
If they fail to do so, other Abu Musab al-Zarqawis and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadis will emerge in the nation, which would in turn rattle neighbors and the local countries.To recognize the goals of the Syrian individuals, the provisional rulers should gradually pave the ground totally free and fair elections under the supervision of the United Nations in a calm and protected atmosphere.