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icals would turn out to be the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas. Yet, Tuesday's announcement that the Hamas leadership has officially relocated from Damascus, and its public declarations of support for the Syrian rebels, suggest a dramatic political break with Iran — and with it the end of any illusion
t would require a degree of organization and infrastructure. Iran already has the means and capability to do this, using Revolutionary Guards from the Quds Force or Hezbollah, its Lebanese terrorist surrogates. Al-Qaeda, which has established a front inside Syria, has expressed an interest in the past at co
ast make it clear that Assad w=ll not have a free hand in reestablishing his rule." Is such use of Amer=can air power feasible? Yes; outside of the Damascus area air defenses are=quite limite= and so would be the risk t= the United States. This conclusion is supported by Israel's series of suc=essful air
=pan> And Iran is already=on the march. American officials say that two battalions of the Revolution=ry Guards' most elite special operations group—the Quds Force—have alr=ady crossed the border and are fighting alongside Iraqi soldiers. Militarily, ISIL could not survive such an onsla=ght. But here is where
icals would turn out to be the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas. Yet, Tuesday's announcement that the Hamas leadership has officially relocated from Damascus, and its public declarations of support for the Syrian rebels, suggest a dramatic political break with Iran — and with it the end of any illusion T
e a degree of organization and infrastructure. Iran already has the means and EFTA00686842 capability to do this, using Revolutionary Guards from the Quds Force or Hezbollah, its Lebanese terrorist surrogates. Al-Qaeda, which has established a front inside Syria, has expressed an interest in the past at co
ression, as do reports that the White House blocked Pentagon and CIA plans to arm the opposition that's fighting to overthrow Iran's client regime in Damascus. An America that won't help proxies in a proxy war isn't likely to take the fight directly to Iran's nuclear facilities. In rejecting Mr. Biden's of
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027104 →a compromise on its nuclear programme. Maybe Egypt could help. Both Egypt and Iran have denied a report that General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force, a division of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the man responsible for Iran's military operations in Syria, visited Cairo in Janua
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027110 →ression, as do reports that the White House blocked Pentagon and CIA plans to arm the opposition that's fighting to overthrow Iran's client regime in Damascus. An America that won't help proxies in a proxy war isn't likely to take the fight directly to Iran's nuclear facilities. In rejecting Mr. Biden's off
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028730 →e a compromise on its nuclear programme. Maybe Egypt could help. Both Egypt and Iran have denied a report that General Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force, a division of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the man responsible for Iran's military operations in Syria, visited Cairo in Janua
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028736 →Entities connected to both Damascus and the Quds Force

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Lebanon
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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Tehran
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
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Tunisia
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Hosni Mubarak
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Cairo
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Yemen
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Middle East
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Fatah
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Marc Rich
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Jerusalem
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Joe Biden
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Jeffrey Epstein
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