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"Syria is Iran's closest state ally in the Arab world"

"he supplied Syria with cut-price oil and aid totalling $150 million in 1977"

"Tehran and Damascus first signed a military cooperation treaty in 1998"

"they are beholden to the al-Sauds, who finance them and their country"

"They, along with Kuwait and Abu Dhabi, paid the US for its war-related expenses"

"Tom Donilon, President Obama's national security adviser"

"Assad is the Arab leader most closely aligned with Iran"

"Rachid al-Ghannouchi, the founder of Tunisia's main Islamist party -- Islamic Nanda"

"the Saudis and their GCC allies put up mountains of cash to support Saddam Hussein"

"All this and more they have done at the insistence of their Saudi masters"

"by deploying troops to Bahrain"

"non-state allies [like] Hezbollah [in Lebanon]"

"and Hamas [in the Palestinian territories]"

"there was a belated suggestion for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down"

"Gen. Firuzabadi justified Iran's support for Hezbollah in Lebanon"

"Gen. Firuzabadi justified Iran's support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and for Hamas in the Palestinian territories"

"Syria plays a crucial role in channelling arms from Iran to both Hezbollah and Hamas"

"Syria plays a crucial role in channelling arms from Iran to both Hezbollah and Hamas"

"the countries worked together 'to push the Americans out' with a suicide attack that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in 1983"

"Donilon met with Saudi King Abdullah for more than two hours"

"Iran, the enabler of Hizballah's military capability"

"the country's Islamists were, for the most part, crushed by Qaddafi long ago"

"Shia militant groups, such as Iraq's Hizb al-Dawa and Lebanon's Hezbollah, allied with Iran"

"Shia militant groups, such as Iraq's Hizb al-Dawa and Lebanon's Hezbollah, allied with Iran"

"along with their protector the United States"

"Assad on Monday sent in the tanks and thousands of troops to reclaim the streets of Deraa"

"Libya's rebel movement and provisional government, the National Council... According to their spokesman, Abdul Hafidh Ghoga"

"They have, reportedly, signed secret contacts with Mossad (WP, April 12, 2011)"

"You've worked in the U.S. State Department on Middle Eastern policy."

"U.S. allies in the region such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel that want to keep Assad in power"

"U.S. allies in the region such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel that want to keep Assad in power"

"U.S. allies in the region such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel that want to keep Assad in power"

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just a couple of weeks ago was still referring to him as a 'reformer'"

"Syrian opposition sources claim that Tehran has sent snipers to help Mr. Assad kill demonstrators"

"activists working to end Muammar al-Gaddafi's oppression"

"the Muslim Brotherhood took piecemeal and pragmatic steps toward recognizing the legitimacy of democracy... when the Kefaya movement and former U.S. P"

"the Muslim Brotherhood took piecemeal and pragmatic steps... when the Kefaya movement and former U.S. President George W. Bush's rhetoric of democrati"

"ASEF BAYAT is Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois"

"He is the author, most recently, of Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East"

"the recent visit of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to King Abdullah"

"Hossein Askari is Iran Professor of International Business and professor of international affairs at the George Washington University"