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Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance on state TV in nearly three weeks Tuesday in a show of solidarity with a senior Iranian envoy, even as the U.S. urged stepped up international planning for the regime's collapse.
The visit to Damascus by the highest-ranking Iranian official since the uprising began coincided with a warning by an increasingly agitated Tehran that it holds the U.S. responsible for the fate of 48 Iranians seized by Syrian rebels.
Appearing together on state TV, Assad and Iran's Saeed Jalili vowed to defeat the rebels and their backers, while U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton predicted Assad's regime was quickly unraveling, with high-level defections such as his prime minister's switch to the rebel side.
Originally posted by RizeorDie
Get off your knees for the sake of mankind
Assad is a better human being than Obama or Bush or King Abdullah or Morsi or 80% of the current world leaders
I watch Arabic TV channels from Beirut, and the Syrian Army is doing as MUCH as it can to help evacuate and protect the Syrian people regardless of religion or class.
on the other hand, the CIA/Al Qaeda, backed terrorist rebels are killing, assassinating, looting, raping, terrorising the Syrian people while the western powers are pushing the country towards civil war, and using their mass media to portray Assad as an alawaite dictator who starved his own people and gassed them with chemical weapons.
In reality, the Syrians prefer Assad, hes popular, had the syrians hated him the uprise would have ended 14 months ago, as fast as the egyptian revolution
do you see what i mean or are you blinded by ignorance?
Originally posted by binkman
This is, of course, nothing like the way the US allies itself with dictators around the world who kill their own people. The US is always the exception.
There are people out there screaming about how America is doing nothing for the people of Syria and how brutal the regime is on its people, and how wrong it is..
The same thing was said about Saddam in Iraq, we were told he had killed 5,000 of his own people.........So the west went in..................... AND KILLED A MILLION MORE.