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January 1, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/12/30/time-for-iran-to-make-a-deal/

Iran Wakes to New Syrian Reality

(American Interest) Walter Russell Mead - Syria is crucial to Iran's grand design in the Middle East. It was also the means by which Iran was able to support Hizbullah in Lebanon and construct an anti-Israel alliance with Hamas that helped offset Iran's deep disadvantages on the Arab street, making it look less like a "Persian" and "heretical" anti-Arab power and more like a leader of global Islam in the fight against the West. The growing likelihood that decades of building this position will end in catastrophe represents the greatest threat to the Iranian regime since its failure in the Iran-Iraq war.

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