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"Qu Hongbin, the very smart chief China economist at HSBC"

"Hamas's no longer undisputed leader Khaled Mashaal"

"Imad al-Alami (the military supremo) went back to Gaza"

"Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas government in Gaza"

"On February 6 in Doha he signed — under the auspices (and financial incentives) of the Emir of Qatar — an agreement with the Palestinian Authority's M"

"paid a widely publicized visit to Iran, kissing and hugging Supreme Leader Khamenei"

"returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office"

"Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's leadership"

"under the auspices (and financial incentives) of the Emir of Qatar — an agreement with the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas"

"The Iranians and Russians may yet pay a price for propping up Assad in Syria"

"The Iranians and Russians may yet pay a price for propping up Assad in Syria"

"asking for direct financial assistance to Gaza"

"Supplying arms to the rebels, as advocated by the Saudis, would certainly stoke the conflict"

"The opposition forces have been endorsed not just by the US, but also by al-Qaeda"

"H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice"

"Ali Larijani [speaker of the parliament] wing as well as other hardliners [within the United Front of Principlists]"

"the Steadfastness Front has a list of hardliners... and includes many people close to Ahmadinej ad"

"the leader of that list is Ali Motahari"

"Mohammad Bailer Qalibaf, the current mayor of Tehran"

"Farideh Farhi, Graduate Faculty and Lecturer, University of Hawaii, Manoa"

"Robert Danin, a senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations"

"says Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace"

"Hamzeh Mansour, leader of the IAF"

"IAF, the political arm of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood"

"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah scolded Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week"

"Riyadh currently sends weapons on an ad hoc basis to the Syrian opposition"

"Other Sunni Gulf states, principally Qatar, may be contributing weapons... including giving them weapons to defend themselves"

"the Assad regime to crumble because it is an ally and proxy of their sworn Shiite enemy, Iran"

"Jonathan Schanzer... is vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies"

"Jonathan Schanzer, a former intelligence analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department"