Daesh reign of terror crumbling: Analyst
A London-based political analyst says the Daesh Takfiri group’s reign of terror has started to crumble since the start of Russia's air campaign in Syria last September.
“On the one hand, ever since the Russian air campaign against ISIS and other Islamist terrorist groups in Syria began on the 30th of September last year and in conjunction with the Syrian army, which is the heart and soul in the fight against terrorism in Syria, the ISIS’s reign of terror in Syria is starting to crumble,” Marcus Papadopoulos, a publisher and an editor of Politics First, told Press TV on Tuesday.
Elsewhere in the interview, he touched upon Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent remarks on the US missile system deployment and NATO's expansion toward Russia's borders, and said, “It was about ten years ago we heard about the plans of the American government to install a missile defense shield in Europe, which officially was going to be aimed at Iran and North Korea. Well many of us knew then and we know now that, that was absolute nonsense; that was a lie. The real target was Russia. The target was Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrence.”
He further described the US move as a “very serious incredible threat to the security of the Russian Federation.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Lavrov described the US missile system deployment and NATO's expansion toward Russia's borders as “destabilizing” and “short-sighted”.
Speaking at an annual press conference, Lavrov said that Russia will not allow the West to punish Moscow for having an independent foreign policy.
He added that Moscow is ready to cooperate with Western countries, but only and exclusively on an equal and mutually advantageous basis.
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