Sources

SRC-094

Middle East Monitor, 'Leaked documents reveals size of Syria's debts to Iran', 11 August 2023

Source ID
SRC-094
Citation
Middle East Monitor, 'Leaked documents reveals size of Syria's debts to Iran', 11 August 2023
URL or path
research/retrieved/SRC-094_middleeastmonitor.com.html; https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230811-leaked-documents-reveals-size-of-syrias-debts-to-iran/
Type
News reporting of leaked documents
Hierarchy tier
6
Published
2023-08-11
Accessed
2026-08-15
Snapshot
- || HELD. Retrieved 1 September 2026 by plain HTTP GET with a browser User-Agent, HTTP 200, 138905 bytes, SHA-256 cab23734e08604ef..., at research/retrieved/SRC-094_middleeastmonitor.com.html. The capture terminates correctly. THIS ROW PREVIOUSLY CARRIED AN ADDRESS AND NO HELD FILE, so anything it recorded as read could not be checked by anyone; it can now.
Claims
CH3 legacy debt
Status
READ

Version history

The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.

  1. FETCHED AND READ AT THE PAGE 15 August 2026. This is the report the chapter actually relies on, and until the v6 diff review the chapter attributed its content to a piece published three months earlier. VERBATIM ON THE FIFTY BILLION, AND IT CALLS IT A DEBT: 'Documents leaked from Iran's Foreign Ministry revealed that Syria owes Iran $50 billion in funds spent to support the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad over the past ten years in the forms of both military and civilian support.' And: 'The report states that Syria's debts to Iran are divided into two categories; military and civilian.' VERBATIM ON THE INSTRUMENT: 'The agreement signed by the Syrian minister of economy and trade with the former Iranian minister of roads and urban development in September 2022, stipulates the recovery of $18 billion from Syria within the next 50 years.' AND THE SENTENCE THAT MATTERS MOST, WHICH THE CHAPTER HAD MISSED: the agreements concluded to restore the debts 'only cover $18 billion of the $50 billion', which Tehran wants recovered 'in the form of investments and the transfer of phosphates, oil and other resources from Syria'. BARELY A THIRD OF THE LARGEST FIGURE IN THE CLUSTER IS ATTACHED TO ANY AGREEMENT, and that is a better and better-evidenced point than the one the chapter tried to make. TIER 6, news reporting of leaked documents. The underlying documents are not available as citable primaries. Any sentence using this says what it is. LOCAL COPY TAKEN 17 August 2026 for D-070's claim rows: research/retrieved/memo-leaked-documents-syria-debts-iran.html and .txt, HTTP 200, 138,024 bytes, sha256 2554434cf52384cb. RE-READ: the USD 50 billion over ten years, military and civilian, and the agreements covering USD 18 billion of it. Registered at CH3-009.