{"id":225082,"date":"2026-07-27T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:36:12","slug":"syrian-security-pact-could-pave-way-for-peace-deal-with-israel-says-al-sharaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/225082\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian security pact could pave way for peace deal with Israel, says al-Sharaa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

He said that, if concluded, a security agreement could create the conditions for a future peace deal without Syria abandoning what it considers its sovereign rights over the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

Israel captured the strategic plateau from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and effectively annexed it in 1981, a move recognised by the US\u00a0but rejected by most of the international community, which continues to regard the territory as occupied Syrian land.<\/p>\n

Al-Sharaa, a former jihadist<\/a> who led the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda,\u00a0said Damascus\u00a0was not interested in military confrontation with Israel and was instead focused on regional stability.<\/p>\n

The Syrian leader also addressed neighbouring Lebanon<\/a>, saying his government was supporting the Lebanese government\u2019s efforts to reassert state authority but would not intervene militarily in attempts to dismantle Hezbollah\u2019s armed capabilities.<\/p>\n

He said Syria backed the principle that the Lebanese state should hold a monopoly on weapons and be the sole authority responsible for decisions on war and peace.<\/p>\n

Al-Sharaa warned that instability in Lebanon would inevitably spill across the border, saying any deterioration or descent into chaos there would have direct consequences for Syria.<\/p>\n

This story originally appeared in the JC Israel Briefing. You can sign up to receive the briefing daily here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said that, if concluded, a security agreement could create the conditions for a future peace deal without…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[64365,37,95],"class_list":["post-225082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-editors-pick","tag-israel","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116993155648214534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}