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Assad Is Scaling Down Military Readiness across Syria
(Al-Monitor) Khaled al-Khateb - On Jan. 10, Syrian President Assad ordered a rollback of army mobilization to the level maintained nine years ago before the start of the civil war. Mohammed Adeeb, a Syrian political science researcher, said, "Iranian funding for the regime's army has stopped due to the economic conditions and international sanctions imposed on the Iranian regime." Hisham Eskif, deputy head of the political bureau of the opposition Al-Salam Brigade, said, "The direct reason behind the Syrian regime's decision to scale down the readiness of its forces is its inability to bear the high costs that the permanent state of alert requires due to the deteriorating economic situation in Syria."