The key to ensuring that the situation in Syria doesn’t devolve into a scenario where Iran emerges as the regional winner in a post-Assad end-game, lies not with the UN, U.S. or EU, but with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of a summit in Beijing next week. The meeting is ostensibly tied to diplomatic efforts aimed at curtailing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but to even consider that Syria won’t be at the top of the agenda is to ignore Iran’s latest regional chess move.
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