[lit-ideas] Possibility of a Split in Iran-Syria Axis

  • From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:47:17 -0800

http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD146407 

 

While Simon's Europe intends to sit out the War until America elects someone
that suits them, the War goes on without them.  Here is an interesting
article pertaining to strained relations between Syria and Iran.  

 

And while Leftists can manage to figure out who it is that is threatening
us, the Islamic Militants have no difficulty with that.  Here are two of
them being discussed: Syria and Iran.   We don't hear much about Syria, but
they have been an ally of Iran.  Can a secular Baathist regime be an ally of
an Islamist regime; something Douglas Feith thought possible but the CIA
didn't back before the Iraqi invasion - a second guessing of the CIA the
Inspector General of the Defense Department though inappropriate?   Well
yes, of course it can.  It is, but all is not well as the former Jordanian
information minister Saleh Al-Qallab writes.  Syria fears that Iran would be
willing to sacrifice them to their nuclear ambitions.  He writes, "The
cooling [of relations between Syria and Iran] is serious, and is not just a
tactical [maneuver].  It will develop into a split and into severe
hostility, unless Tehran finds a way to bridge [the difference] between its
own priorities and those of Syria.  Damascus cannot remain calm and serene
with the threat of the international tribunal hanging over its head.  If the
Syrians sense that Iran [plans to reach understandings regarding Lebanon]
without them, they will hasten to give the Americans everything they want in
return for guarantees regarding both the preservation of the Syrian regime
and the international tribunal."

 

Lawrence

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