“Resistance” has won; the US’s “blade is losing its edge day by day”. So declared Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, after a meeting with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, who turned up in Tehran last week to congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad on his “election”.
For Iran’s top leader, the Syrian president’s visit was an opportunity to claim that, despite the turmoil over the June 12 presidential vote, the biggest threat to the Islamic Republic since its founding, it was business as usual in Tehran. His words were meant as a warning that no one should be under the illusion that the Islamic system has been weakened by its internal troubles.
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