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Syria and Iran: the great game | Alastair Crooke | Opinion | The Guardian

'The external opposition continues to fudge its stance on external intervention, and with good reason: the internal opposition rejects it. '

'Iran has said that it will respond to any external intervention in Syria. '

'This is the flaw to the model – for the majority in Syria deeply oppose external intervention, fearing civil conflict. '

'Only external intervention could change that equation, but for the opposition to call for it would be political suicide, and they know it. '

'The transitional council model, which in Libya has displayed the weakness of leveraging just one faction as the government-in-waiting, is more starkly defective in Syria. '

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