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February 3, 2012

Syria Offers Chance to Weaken Iran

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

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His fall would deprive Iran of an intra-Arab staging area and sever its corridor to the Mediterranean. Syria would return to the Sunni fold. Hezbollah, Tehran's agent in Lebanon, could be next, withering on the vine without Syrian support and Iranian materiel. And Hamas would revert to Egyptian patronage.

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TAGGED: Russia, Syria, Iran

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