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rotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al- Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umb
has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al- Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umbrella gro
concealed its intention to turn to new patrons in the region. EFTA00630296 Tehran believes that Syria has fallen victim to a foreign plot. While Bashar al-Assad is carrying out reforms, Tehran says, there are foreign parties solely concerned with Assad's alliance with the axis of resistance, that wreak havo
n's Palestinian Strategy Mohammad Ataie May 13, 2012 -- Since the advent of the Iranian revolution, the Palestinian issue has been at the heart of the Islamic Republic's foreign policy. For ideological and strategic reasons, supporting the Palestinian cause and resistance against Israel has been an integral part of
ruiting supporters within the ranks of the still largely secular protest movement, whose unifying goal is the ouster of the regime led by President Bashar al-Assad. But if the United Nations' peace plan fails to end the government's bloody crackdown and promises of Western and Arab help for the rebel Free S
al. Although many Syrian opposition activists insist that their revolution is not sectarian, EFTA00660170 a majority of Syrians are Sunnis, while Assad, along with most leading figures in the regime and in the security forces, belongs to the Shiite- affiliated Alawite minority, lending a sectarian d
livered at a slower pace? It's possible. If Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former major-domo of Iranian clerical politics and the true father of the Islamic Republic's nuclear-weapons EFTA00660167 program, were still in charge, we'd likely be enmeshed in the rope-a-dope tactics that he successfully used against
on and the realization of democratic institutions. In Egypt, autocratic military officers vie for power with varying shades of Islamists. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad has responded to the demands of his people by slaughtering them, many hundreds each week. In the Persian Gulf, sultans and emirs stifle potential p
varying shades of Islamists. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad has responded to the demands of his people by sl
new round of sanctions that essentially blacklisted Iran's central bank by penalizing anyone who does business with it, a move designed to cripple the Islamic Republic's ability to sell oil overseas. Iran responded by threatening to militarily shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane out of the Persi
rotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14- month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umbrella gro
pt, to which the Syrian branch is very loosely affiliated. Syria's Muslim Brotherhood would support NATO intervention to help the opposition topple Assad, and it has published a manifesto outlining its vision of a future democratic state that makes no mention of Islam and enshrines individual liberti
n's Palestinian Strategy Mohammad Ataie May 13, 2012 -- Since the advent of the Iranian revolution, the Palestinian issue has been at the heart of the Islamic Republic's foreign policy. For ideological and strategic reasons, supporting the Palestinian cause and resistance against Israel has been an integral part of
Entities connected to both Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic Republic's

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