EFTA00701752Set 9
2012-07-2626p9,365w
Iraq
Thomas L. Friedman
Article 2.
Stratfor
Consequences of the Fall of Syrian Regime
George Friedman
Article 3. TIME
Five Syria Nightmares
Tony Karon
Article 4.
Agence Global
The Destruction ... those Syrian rebels who started this
uprising, peacefully, without any arms, against a regime that plays by
what I call Hama Rules, which are no rules at all. The Assad ... regime
deliberately killed demonstrators to turn this conflict into a sectarian
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struggle between the ruling minority Alawite sect, led by the Assad clan,
and the country's majority
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EFTA01874308Set 10
2012-07-2439p9,417w
Iraq
Thomas L. Friedman
Article 2. Stratfor
Consequences of the Fall of Syrian Regime
George Friedman
Article 3
TIME
Five Syria Nightmares
Tony Karon
Article 4 Agence Global
The Destruction ... those Syrian rebels who started this uprising,
peacefully, without any arms, against a regime that
plays by what I call Hama Rules, which are no rules at
all. The Assad ... regime deliberately killed
demonstrators to turn this conflict into a sectarian
struggle between the ruling minority Alawite sect, led
by the Assad clan, and the country's majority of Sunni
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EFTA01179511Set 9
2012-07-2320p7,009w
stressing an orderly transfer in which the opposition
works with acceptable elements of the regime and army. The slow-and-
steady U.S. approach has angered some militant Sunni opposition leaders ... prefer a decapitation of the regime and a revolutionary transition.
U.S. officials believe that Syria is nearing the tipping point, after a
bombing on Wednesday killed Asef Shawkat, Assad ... brother-in-law and
one of the regime's most notorious henchmen, and Dawoud Rajha, the
defense minister who was the regime's most prominent Christian. Fighting
had raged Tuesday
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2013-08-3034p8,105w
Mideast
Doctrine
Jeffrey Goldberg
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ArtIcle 7
Bloomberg
Destroy Assad's Regime, or Hold Your Fire
Fouad Ajami
NYT
One Great Big War
David Brooks
The Economist ... launch a sustained assault with the clear aim of removing Mr
Assad and his regime; or hit the Syrian dictator more briefly but
grievously, as punishment ... defence system and heavy weaponry. At the time Mr Assad's
regime was reeling, most of the rebels were relatively moderate,
the death toll was less than half the current
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2013-10-1531p18,210w
development without having to abandon the
program.
Despite its softened rhetoric, the new Iranian regime can be expected to co=tinue asserting its nuclear "rights" and to
press its advantages ... wolf in sheep's
clothing<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013=10/04/bibi_netanyahu_missing_cartoon_posters_iran_nuclear_t
hreat>," warnin= that the Iranian regime may agree to "cosmetic changes" to its nuclear pr=gram in exchange for
sanctions relief ... Iranian enrichment would be ideal, it is also =ighly unrealistic. The Iranian regime has
invested enormous amounts of pol=tical capital and billions of dollars over decades to master
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EFTA00872400Set 9
2013-09-2340p15,452w
prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear
arsenal or containing a nuclear Iran until its regime collapses from its own
dysfunction.
It is going to be a difficult choice. For that ... ways, to keep it on the defensive and to encourage the end of the regime. It
would hold in place painful sanctions. It would include covert assistance to
the Iranian ... give them to terrorists. This is
extremely unlikely.
Over the years, the Iranian regime has shown itself to be vicious,
murderous, anti-Semitic and anti-American. At times
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EFTA00981265Set 9
2014-01-1728p10,778w
with his team; a delegation from the Syrian opposition;
and a delegation from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. However,
it's quite likely that most ... other words, it does not want to discuss the turnover of the Assad
regime.
That's correct. And it knows that its client does not want to discuss that
subject ... ISIS has made it clear that its first priority is not to fight the
regime, but to establish its form of governance in areas that it can dominate
both inside
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EFTA01073907Set 9
2011-05-1234p9,533w
initiated, as he must confront, address, or co-opt the
traditional constituency of the regime. Finding a way of doing this-
whether through attempting to arrive at a consensus among ... brutal repression of domestic opposition, don't be. Syria isn't
Libya. The Assad regime is just too consequential to risk
undermining.
Although the fall of the House of Assad ... them. I could never quite
understand my colleagues' fascination with the brutal Syrian regime.
To me, Bashar al-Assad was a brutal dictator who wanted to be the
Frank Sinatra
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EFTA01148594Set 9
2011-12-2036p10,706w
civil conflict in Syria and the threat that poses to its ally, the Syrian
regime. Hezbollah recently made significant concessions at home,
including its approval of funding for the Special ... China) than ever because of its
controversial nuclear program and with Syria's regime fighting an
existential battle against its own people, the balance of power is
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has refused to say publicly that it is siding with the Syrian regime, a
move that has angered not only the Syrian leadership but also the
mullahs
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2013-11-1933p8,076w
technologies, roll back some of them and
put in place an unprecedented, intrusive inspection regime,
while maintaining all the key oil sanctions so Iran will still be
hurting aplenty. This ... from an infographic on Supreme
Leader Ali Khamenei's website that describes how the regime's
ultimate decision maker thinks about the matter.
Based on a content analysis ... influence in the Muslim world and beyond. The
infographic, makes clear that the regime considers the nuclear
program to be key to the country's future as a regional
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15p4,282w
four long-
69 term behaviors (Fig. 2). Each occurs in a distinct regime in parameter space, and these are
70 separated by simple, linear boundaries ... equivalently, c <P/(1+P).
78 Two of these regimes, I and IV, produce the expected dynamics. If the drive is fairly
79 neutral and resistance is costly (Regime ... resident population. If,
84 alternatively, the drive is costly and resistance is less costly (Regime IV), both the gene drive and
85 resistant alleles go extinct
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EFTA00591446Set 9
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four long-
69 term behaviors (Fig. 2). Each occurs in a distinct regime in parameter space, and these are
70 separated by simple, linear boundaries ... equivalently, c <P/(1+P).
78 Two of these regimes, I and IV, produce the expected dynamics. If the drive is fairly
79 neutral and resistance is costly (Regime ... resident population. If,
84 alternatively, the drive is costly and resistance is less costly (Regime IV), both the gene drive and
85 resistant alleles go extinct
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EFTA00712371Set 9
2012-07-0926p9,323w
Mediterranean outpost are probably linked with the survivability of
al Assad's regime. But his removal might well hasten the slide into chaos
within Syria and in adjacent Lebanon, rather ... their own state becoming a battlefront in an intensifying Syrian
civil war. The Jordanian regime, already unpopular at home, is also afraid
of regional upheaval. The Saudis, even more ... Iranians, they
will do all they can to keep the current Syrian regime in place even as
they may privately abhor al Assad's inefficient brutality. (The Iranians
effectively crushed
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EFTA01180446Set 9
2012-08-1427p9,833w
Israeli preventive strike would justify, in
the minds of Iranians -- even non- or anti-regime Iranians -- that their
country needs nuclear weapons as protection. Certainly much of the world
would ... Iran among Sunni
Arabs across the Middle East, who right now despise the regime for,
among other reasons, supporting the Assad government in Damascus.
Right now, Arab opinion is hardened ... Israel relationship. It might not
be -- there is no sympathy for the Iranian regime among Americans
(except on the left-most, and right-most margins) and there is plenty
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EFTA01874845Set 10
2012-08-1441p9,886w
Israeli
preventive strike would justify, in the minds of
Iranians -- even non- or anti-regime Iranians -- that
their country needs nuclear weapons as protection.
Certainly much of the world would ... Arabs across the Middle East, who right
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now despise the regime for, among other reasons,
supporting the Assad government in Damascus. Right
now, Arab opinion ... Israel
relationship. It might not be -- there is no sympathy
for the Iranian regime among Americans (except on
the left-most, and right-most margins) and there is
plenty
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EFTA02028284Set 10
2012-08-1441p9,889w
Israeli
preventive strike would justify, in the minds of
Iranians -- even non- or anti-regime Iranians -- that
their country needs nuclear weapons as protection.
Certainly much of the world would ... Arabs across the Middle East, who right
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now despise the regime for, among other reasons,
supporting the Assad government in Damascus. Right
now, Arab opinion ... Israel
relationship. It might not be -- there is no sympathy
for the Iranian regime among Americans (except on
the left-most, and right-most margins) and there is
plenty
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2012-06-0824p8,479w
participate in the initial series of
demonstrations, Syrian Islamists joined the opposition after the regime
responded with force to the public display of dissent. As the violence has
escalated ... used the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood as a proxy to topple the
Syrian Ba'athist regime, which has governed for almost half a century.
Washington's two primary interests in Syria ... Jordan and Israel, Washington backed the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood's
armed uprising against the regime of Hafez Assad. Since 1982, the Syrian
Muslim Brotherhood has been in exile (primarily
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