Are Iranian products banned into Syrian opposition-held areas?
The Syrian Islamic Council close to the Syrian opposition issued a fatwa prohibiting the entry of Iranian goods into opposition areas, claiming Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is allowing the spread of the goods in its areas in northwest Syria.
IDLIB, Syria — The Syrian Islamic Council issued Aug. 30 a fatwa on trading in Iranian goods in northern Syria, which, it claims, have swamped the area’s markets.
“It is forbidden to trade in or bring Iranian goods to local markets,” the council said in a statement.
It continued that the fatwa was based on several considerations, most notably the social and economic risks resulting from opening the local markets in the liberated areas, in reference to the areas under the control of the Syrian opposition, to Iranian goods, “which only serves to strengthen our enemies and alleviate Iran’s economic siege, all the way to accepting normalization with it.”
Parties in the Syrian opposition that are based in Turkey often accuse Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) of allowing Iranian goods into the opposition-held areas in northern Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey.
