Sally Nabil
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
It's as if it's shackling the economy. So a lot of people are hoping that at some point in the near future, Syria will come out of this international isolation. I was visiting a very old market here in Damascus, talking to a shopkeeper who owns a shop for musical instruments. And he said that before the war broke out, he used to have customers queuing up in front of his store.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
Now he barely makes $10 a day because of the international sanctions. He can't make any bad transfers. He can't import any material. So a lot of people are suffering, in fact.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
Yeah, I believe they both go hand in hand. They have to prove that they can adopt a comprehensive political process. And the question is, will they be able or willing to do that? HTS used to be part of Jabhat al-Nusra and part of Al-Qaeda, an extremist movement. And they broke away from them years ago. And now they are trying to prove that they are adopting a new approach.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
Will they be able to go as far as warning a comprehensive government that represents all Syrians? That's the big question now.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
He said that we will follow diplomacy. We are not up to more military confrontations. And he was referring to Israel and somehow Iran when he was talking about that. He criticized the Israeli tenuous airstrikes on Damascus and various parts of the Syrian territory. And he said this is totally unacceptable and that the international community has to step up and resolve this issue.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
As for Iran, he said that we are on good terms with the Iranian people, but he did not talk about the Iranian political elite, who were one of the biggest backers of the former president Bashar al-Assad. So far, he's been adopting a reconciliatory tone when it comes to politics, when it comes to how he treats the minorities.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
But how long this is going to last, whether or not these words will be materialized into actions, that's the big question.