Egyptian Political Analyst: Ground Incursion into Syria to Cut Short Saudi Regime’s Life

“Saudi Arabia cannot play an effective role in Saudi Arabia with its incompetent army,” Youssef Hassan said.

He reiterated that Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Syria will only contribute to the collapse of that regime in the near future, and said, “Saudi Arabia’s performance in Syria is a fiasco.”

“Tens of billions of dollars of costs supplied by Saudi Arabia to the ISIL, Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaeda have failed to help Saudi Arabia, and its proxy war in Syria with the help of terrorists is facing a tragic defeat now,” Hassan added.

In a relevant development in February, Secretary-General of the Syrian National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change Mahmoud Marei warned that a ground intrusion in Syria by Saudi Arabia and Turkey will ignite a regional war.

Speaking to FNA in Damascus, Marei elaborated on a recent meeting among leaders of the dissident groups and UN Special envoy for Syria Steffan de Mistura.

“The participants in the meeting stressed that the internal opposition forces are opposed to all forms of terrorism, and that political solutions cannot be reached through partnership of the terrorist groups,” he said.

“The internal opposition groups also underscored that any Saudi and Turkish ground intervention in Syria will lead the Geneva 3 negotiations into failure and will ignite a major war in the region,” Marei said.

The idea of Riyadh’s possible ground invasion of Syria was first raised on February 4 by Ahmed Asiri, a spokesman for the Saudi Defense Ministry.

Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both part of an effort to create an alleged “Islam Army,” ostensibly aimed at combating terrorism in the region and consisting of 34 Sunni Islam nations.

Almost the entire range of extremist and terrorist groups are supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, with their key commanders and leaders being Saudi nationals. ISIL, Al-Nusra and other extremist groups pursue the same line of ideology exercised and promoted by Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism. Hundreds of Saudi clerics are among the ranks of ISIL and Al-Nusra to mentor the militants.

Wahhabism is now the only source of the textbooks taught at schools in the self-declared capital of the ISIL terrorist group, Raqqa, in Northeastern Syria resembling the texts and lessons taught to schoolgoers in Saudi Arabia. The Wahhabi ideology, an extremist version of Sunni Islam that is promoted almost only in Saudi Arabia, sees all other faiths – from other interpretations of Sunni Islam to Shiism, Christianity and Judaism – as blasphemy, meaning that their followers should be decapitated as nonbelievers.

Early in February, the Saudi Defense Ministry said it stood ready to deploy ground troops to Syria to allegedly aid the US-led anti-ISIL, also known as Daesh, coalition.

Riyadh has been a member of the US-led coalition that has been launching airstrikes against Daesh in Syria since September 2014, without the permission of Damascus or the United Nations. In December 2015, Saudi Arabia started its own Muslim 34-nation coalition to allegedly fight Islamic extremism.

Daesh or ISIL/ISIS is a Wahhabi group mentored by Saudi Arabia and has been blacklisted as a terrorist group everywhere in the world, including the United States and Russia, but Saudi Arabia.

Damascus, Tehran and Moscow have issued stern warnings to Riyadh, stressing that the Saudi intruders, who in fact intend to rescue the terrorists that are sustaining heavy defeats these days, will be crushed in Syria.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem warned that any ground operation in Syria without Damascus’ approval is an “act of aggression”, warning that the Saudi aggressors “would go back home in coffins”.

In Tehran, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Saudi Arabia doesn’t have the guts to send its armed forces to Syria.

“They claim they will send troops (to Syria) but I don’t think they will dare do so. They have a classic army and history tells us such armies stand no chance in fighting irregular resistance forces,” Jafari said.

“This will be like a coup de grâce for them. Apparently, they see no other way but this, and if this is the case, then their fate is sealed,” he added.

Jafari, said this is just cheap talks, but Iran welcomes the Saudi decision if they decide to walk on this path.