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Residents walk near damaged buildings in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria May 5, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Iran Reiterates Support for Syria’s Assad

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 7, 2016 | Middle East

A senior Iranian official has met with the head of the Syrian Regime, Bashar Assad, and pledged unrelenting support for his government in the country’s five-year-old civil war. Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...

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Opinion: The Regional Dimensions of the Destruction in Aleppo

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 4, 2016 | Opinion

The humanitarian tragedy in Aleppo is indescribable and represents the height of the Syrian ordeal. Not challenging the aggressors will give them a carte blanche to do what they like in our region. Aleppo will whet the appetite of Iran and its allies for limitless...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the Gulf States Foreign Ministers Meeting in Manama, Bahrain April 7, 2016. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

Kerry to Iran: Pressure Assad to Secure a Political Solution

by Heba El Koudsy | Apr 20, 2016 | Middle East

Washington- During the Tuesday New York meeting, holding both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, each of Washington and Tehran laid forth a score of heated issues for discussion. Washington employed a...

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The West Warns Assad’s Step down Might Not Be Thorough Mimicking Yemen’s Saleh

by Michelle Abu Najm and Nazir Majli | Apr 18, 2016 | Middle East

Geneva-Meanwhile the Syrian Opposition threatens its withdrawal from the current Syrian peace talks in Geneva, for reasons of negotiations not directly addressing political transition, other Western diplomatic sources reached by Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper warned of...

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Maryam Rajavi

Rajavi: The Iranian Regime Will Collapse Following Assad’s Leave from Power

by Huda Al Husseini | Apr 17, 2016 | Middle East

Paris-Maryam Rajavi, President of the “People’s Mujahedin of Iran” party, said that the Iranian regime is founded on three main pillars for it to prevail. The three principals are assembling a nuclear deterrent, absolute oppression of the interior and the export...