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October 15, 2012

Iran Is Stuck with Chaotic Syria

Emile Hokayem, The National

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Tehran has valuable interests at stake: its force-multiplying alliance with Damascus has withstood the vagaries of Middle East politics and endless Arab and western attempts to pull them apart. The alliance has long - and mistakenly - been portrayed as one of convenience: the two countries were too dissimilar, many luminaries thought.

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