Iran stepping up support for Assad

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WARNING. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a file photo

Iran is stepping up its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while Russia is continuing to send money and arms to the regime, outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned in her last interview as secretary of state. “The Iranians have made it clear for some time that keeping Assad in power was one of their highest priorities. We believe they have acted on that by sending in more personnel, not only to help Assad, but to support and advise military security forces,” Clinton said. She also said that despite US efforts to bring Moscow on board to work for an international solution to the 22-month war in Syria that has claimed some 60,000 lives, Russia was continuing to prop up the regime.


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