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Source: http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22Iran%27s+Syria+Strategy%3A+Heavy+Meddle%22

Iran's Syria Strategy: Heavy Meddle

(Wall Street Journal) Michael Singh - According to the U.S. government, the Iranians are complicit in the Assad regime's "human rights abuses and repression of the Syrian people." Were Assad to fall, a key link in Iran's strategic chain across the region would be broken. Furthermore, if protesters in Syria were to inspire Iran's own democracy activists to redouble their efforts, the Iranian regime would find itself in serious peril. Thus it is unsurprising that it has dispatched the Quds Force to help Assad stop the Arab Spring at his doorstep. The writer, senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration, is managing director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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