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![hahussain Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::39344961.png) Hussain Abdul-Hussain [@hahussain](/creator/twitter/hahussain) on x 111.3K followers
Created: 2025-07-22 12:50:08 UTC

#Turkey bets on #Syria Islamists (Sharaa or Abu Amsheh) to expand its influence in the Levant and inherit #Iran. As Turkey beats non-Muslims and Kurds in Syria, it’ll give Iran an opportunity to reconnect, recruit, fund, arm the opposition  in Syria— the Alawites and the Kurds.
What I don’t get is what’s in it for #Saudi Arabia that has no interest in seeing either radical Islamists — Sunni Turkey or Shia Iran — take over Syria.
If anything, Saudi interest is in shoring up non-Islamists — Alawites, Kurds, Druze, Christians — to counter balance Turkey and make sure minorities are not beaten and desperate to connect with Iran to sponsor them.
But Saudis taking side of Sharaa and Turkey doesn’t make sense to me, AT ALL.


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