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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1707
Iran Wins If Assad Wins
(Israel Hayom) Zalman Shoval - The country that stands to gain the most from Assad's survival is Iran - Assad's biggest diplomatic, military, and financial backer. If the Baath regime remains intact, Iran will reap geopolitical and strategic fruits as it strives for regional hegemony. Iran will enter nuclear talks with the West with more leverage. This will manifest itself, or perhaps is already manifesting itself, in mounting Iranian audacity. The writer served twice as Israel's Ambassador to the U.S.