By
Joseph
Klein
Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad is having a particularly bad week. His country's
Prime Minister Riad Hijab has just defected and appealed to other top officials
to "abandon this murderous and terrorist regime." He joined a
swelling number of military defectors. The armed opposition continues to strike
close to Assad's seat of power, bombing the state television building. However,
Assad can still count on his most loyal ally Iran, whose self-described “axis”
with the Syrian regime is alive and well. During his visit to Damascus this
week to meet with Assad, Saeed Jalil, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National
Security Council and top nuclear negotiator, declared that "Iran will
never allow the resistance axis - of which Syria is an essential pillar - to
break." [more...]
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