Syria and Iran's Power Calculus


Syria and Iran's power calculus

CNN (blog) -
Iran's close ties to Syria mean that if the government of President Bashar al-Assad were to fall after months of opposition and a brutal crackdown, "it would be a tremendous blow to the Iranian regime," says Iranian expert ...

EU to impose oil embargo on Syria

The Guardian -
As Syrian president Bashir al-Assad, above right, celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the EU announced its intention to ban oil from Syria. Photograph: AP Europe is to impose an oil embargo on Syria, in effective freezing almost all business between Damascus and ...

Report: Shell won't stop oil production in Syria unless EU mandates a boycott

Washington Post -
By AP, AMSTERDAM - Royal Dutch Shell PLC will not stop producing oil in Syria unless it is directed to do so by the European Union, media in the Netherlands report.

Turkey, Syria Approaching Diplomatic Rift

Voice of America -
August 29, 2011 Turkey, Syria Approaching Diplomatic Rift Dorian Jones Turkey's prime minister and its president have announced they have lost confidence in the Syrian leadership, while the foreign minister warned that Ankara will side with the Syrian ...

For Syria, what is 'left'?

Aljazeera.net -
The brutal crackdown of the past five months cannot be excused by Syria's resistance credentials. It is a concrete rationale that fuels opposition to Israel's apartheid regime and the United States' duplicitous and violent policies in the Middle East.

Philippine ambassador to Syria replaced

Inquirer.net -
By Jerry E. Esplanada MANILA, Philippines—Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario has recalled the country's ambassador to Syria, reportedly over differences in the assessment of the situation in that troubled Middle East country.

The real story today is in Syria

Jewish Chronicle -
Syria is collaborating with Iran, promoting terrorism and looking to acquire nuclear weapons. Its fall would make the West a little bit safer.

US targets more Syrian officials with sanctions

CBS News -
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, fourth left background, prays during the Eid al-Fitr prayer at Hafez al-Assad mosque, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday Aug. 30, 2011.

Unfathomable Courage in Syria

National Review Online -
Taking over from his dictator father in 2000, Bashar Assad allowed a brief period of liberalization in Syria. Farzat did not let this opening go to waste: He started a magazine, a satirical magazine, the first independent magazine in Syria since the ...

UN Launches Inquiry Into Human Rights Violations In Syria

Voice of America -
08-27-2011 UN Launches Inquiry Into Human Rights Violations In Syria The United Nations Human Rights Council calls for an international inquiry into possible crimes against humanity by the Syrian government.

Syria - An oil producing nation?

Oye! Times -
Syria has been in the news for weeks now and it is very rare that there is any mainstream media coverage of the country's oil and gas industry.

Four military options in Syria

CNN (blog) -
By Michael O'Hanlon - Special to CNN With the continued willingness and ability of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to brutally crush his country's opposition, the question about what options we might have to stop the slaughter grows increasingly ...

Libya victory summit, warns Syria

Center for Research on Globalization -
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called a high-level meeting on Libya's post-Gaddafi future and promised support - but no military action - for opposition forces in Syria. The event is to take place in Paris on 1 September - the 42nd anniversary of ...

Outpouring of cartoons in solidarity with Syria's Ali Ferzat

Ahram Online -
Plantu's cartoon shows one of Ferzat's cartoons that condemned the massacre in Syria with Ferzat on the side with two casted hands and a pen in his mouth that writes “Vive la liberite”.

The 75-year-old smoker who refuses to quit

gulfnews.com -
To shelter them from bad influences, for example, he made sure to pass strict laws preventing beggars and prostitutes from entering Syria. Based on this analogy we can safely say that Syria is like a 75-year-old who just suffered a massive heart attack ...

Statement on Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Al-Arabiya -
By Al Arabiya An amateur video uploaded on a social platform shows members of the Movement of the Free Palestinian Refugees in Syria. The Palestinian people were born free, lived free and will remain free and no one will be allowed to harm their ...

US sanctions Syrian foreign minister, two others

Montreal Gazette -
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration froze the US assets of Syria's foreign minister and two other senior officials on Tuesday in response to Syria's increasingly violent crackdown against anti-government protesters. Along with Foreign Minister Walid ...

Syrian Tanks Surround Another Town After Troop Defections

RTT News -
Although pro-democracy activists in Rastan claim that the troops have opened fire on the town using heavy machine guns, their accounts cannot be independently verified as foreign journalists are barred from Syria. Similar military crackdowns on ...

Armed men kidnap attorney general in central Hama

People's Daily Online -
29 (Xinhua) -- An armed group kidnapped the Syrian attorney general Monday morning at the central province of Hama, Syria's official news agency SANA reported. Judge Adnan Bakkour, along with his driver and a guard, was kidnapped on his way to work on ...

Syrians see credit cards blocked under US sanctions

ArabianBusiness.com -
The move, which affects citizens with credit cards linked to Syrian bank accounts, also means foreign tourists and companies will no longer be able to use their credit cards in Syria. Syrian nationals living in the UAE say they are worried about the


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