pjmedia.com In an exclusive report this week, Reuters revealed secret talks between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates aimed at lifting sanctions on Syria if President Bashar al-Assad “peels himself away from Iran and cuts off weapons routes to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.”
This was even before Syrian rebels burst out of their enclave in the country’s northwest over the weekend, taking Assad’s citadel in Aleppo and threatening Hama. Those events might have given the talks some added urgency.
According to Reuters’Â sources, renewed fighting in the Syrian Civil War “is a signal of precisely the sort of weakness in Assad’s alliance with Iran that the Emirati and U.S. initiative aims to exploit. But if Assad embraces Iranian help for a counter-offensive, that could also complicate efforts to drive a wedge between them.”
Assad might well be thinking of Tehran, “What have you done for me lately?” The best that Iran’s Mullahs’ regime could muster in his defense was a few columns of Iraqi Shi’ite militia â many of whom were quickly dispatched to Paradise (courtesy of the U.S. Air Force) long before they got anywhere close to the battlefield.
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