Uncle Bashar Assad promises the nephew a quick collapse of his regime

The native uncle of the Syrian president Bashar Assad believes that Baas did not long stay in power in Syria. The level of violence in the country is so high that the nephew has little chance of surviving, Rifat Assad said in an interview with the Air Force . It should be noted that the once high -ranking Syrian official, the Rifat Assad got into disgrace and now lives not in Syria, but in Europe.

“Throughout Syria, there are now the same problems now - there is no place where violence occurs. Thus, I do not think that he (Bashar Assad) will be able to maintain power,” the uncle of the president said.

“Nevertheless, I believe that he should stay, because he can cooperate with the new government and share his experience,” adds Rifat Assad. In his opinion, the Assad family still enjoys the support of the Syrian people.

"A commission from the representatives of the League of the Arab states and the UN Security Council must be appointed to observe the implementation of free and transparent elections," the disgraced uncle of the president said.

“Then you will see that the Assad family has much more authority and support than some reckless figures (from the National Council of the opposition of Syria), which we see on TV screens,” assad assured.

Thus, the Air Force notes, the rifat hints that he himself would be a good president of Syria. What experts consider unlikely, given his biography and for many years of expulsion.

In February 1982, Rifad Assad led the suppression of the Islamist rebellion in the city of Hama, during which, according to various sources, from 10 to 25 thousand people were killed.

In 1983, when the ex-president of Syria Hafuz Assad had health problems, his younger brother Rifat, who had a lot of thousands of army groups, made an attempt to a military coup.

He established military control over Damascus, but did not manage to achieve a complete victory. The next year, when his brother recovered from a heart attack, the Rifat was forced to go to an “unlimited foreign carrier”, receiving a ceremonial post of vice president, but having lost all other posts due to power ambitions.

Until 1998, Rifat Assad nominally retained the second person of the Syrian state, unable to return to the country. He is currently constantly living abroad, mainly in France and Spain.

All these years, the Assad Rifat is an irreconcilable critic of the ruling Syrian regime and considers himself a legal head of state. When his son Bashar became the president of Syria after the death of Hafuz Assad in 2000, Rifat criticized such a transfer of power, calling it "a real farce and an unconstitutional theatrical production."

The Air Force notes that the current point of view on the state of the Assad regime is shared by many opponents of this regime - both in the West and in the Arab world.