Ahmed “Abu Muhammad al-Julani” al-Sharaa instructed the BBC on Wednesday that Syria wouldn’t grow to be a second Afghanistan and that it could allow ladies to obtain training.
Julani spoke to the BBC in an try and make clear his place on the brand new Syria whereas assuaging fears that he would flip Syria into the brand new Afghanistan.
Speaking from the Presidential Palace, Sharaa instructed the BBC that Syria was fully exhausted by the struggle and that it didn’t pose a risk to the West.
“Now, in any case that has occurred, sanctions have to be lifted as a result of they had been focused on the outdated regime. The sufferer and the oppressor shouldn’t be handled in the identical method,” he stated.
He additionally denied that his group, Hayat Tahrir al-Shams (HTS), had dedicated terrorist assaults and that the itemizing of HTS as a terrorist group was a political designation.
The United States has a $10 million bounty on Julani’s head for info that will result in his dying or seize. Western nations have declined to say whether or not they are going to be sustaining HTS’s standing as a terrorist group.
The BBC requested Julani if there could be restrictions on ladies’s training and alcohol, to which Julani stated they might not be limiting the rights of ladies and highlighted that Syria was very totally different from Afghanistan.
Repeating the query, they ask about whether or not alcohol could be permitted, to which Julani says that such issues will probably be determined by legislative committees. He adopted up, clarifying that each one Syrians will probably be required to observe the regulation, together with the president.
Tentative cross-confessional help
Independent Arab newspaper Al-Araby al-Jadeed reported that the brand new authorities had obtained tentative help from Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri, the religious chief of Syria’s Druze group.
Al-Hijri was reported as pushing for a “decentralized” system of presidency that safeguards the assorted teams all through the nation.
“We should not able to fall beneath the management of any sectarian, partisan, non secular, or particular regional authority,” he stated.
There had been additionally stories that the Kurdish-led-SDF troops within the nation’s northeast abolished customs duties and different trade-related taxes with the remainder of Syria following the formation of the interim authorities.
