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Reese Erlich
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Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
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2014
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Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You
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2003
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Conversations with Terrorists
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2010
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The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis
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2007
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Dateline Havana
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2008
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65 YEARS OF PAINTING & PRINTS: A Ruth Erlich Retrospective
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“By the beginning of 2012, foreign powers were arming the rebels, each seeking groups that would carry out its political goals in post-Assad Syria. Adventurers,”
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
“At least US and Iranian leaders agree on something: Assad's downfall would tremendously weaken Iran's regional influence. From the beginning of the Syrian uprising, Iran worried that “if the Assad government fell, the replacement would have much stronger ties with the US government and Israeli government,” according to Professor Foad Izadi, an assistant professor at the University of Tehran's Faculty of World Studies. He told me, “that was the dilemma that Iran had.”9”
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
“Syria's continued alliance with Iran became one of the main justifications of Western attempts to overthrow Assad. Tom Donilon, President Obama's national-security adviser, said in 2011 that the “end of the Assad regime would constitute Iran's greatest setback in the region yet—a strategic blow that will further shift the balance of power in the region against Iran.”14”
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
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