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ng the link below, do not cut & paste t=e article. If an agreement with Iran does come to pass, many will argue th=t economic sanctions, imposed by the UN Security Council, the EU and the U=, have achieved their objective. President Hassan Rouhani was elected this=year with a mandate to ease the economic plight of his
s longstanding anti-western, anti-Israeli stand. Hi=bollah's support of the Assad regime has similarly dented its legitimacy= Gone are the days when Hassan Nasrallah, its secretary-general, was the h=ro of the Arab street — 3 EFTA_R1_01401467 EFTA02384040 Sunni and Shia — for his position at the forefront of
d the process. The presidential statement made at the UN Security Council immediately after the incident as well as the UN
nd then avoided defeat in a subsequent round of fighting in 2006. In a poll of Arab public opinion taken in 2008, the three most popular leaders were Hassan Nasrallah, Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, in that order. But this sense of inexorable ascendancy in which the Iran-led bloc liked to cloak itself has
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he possibility of deferring the issue of Syria to the UN Security Council, the communiqué's compromise language illustrates
leadership to immediately stop using force against its people or the G-8 countries would "consider taking further measures". At the same time, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah—the leader of the Lebanese party Hizbullah-called on the Syrian people to give the government time to effectuate reforms, arguing that President Assa
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