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Iran blames US and world powers for Syrian conflict

BEIRUT: Iran has moved to reframe the Syrian conflict as part of a wider battle with the United States and other hostile world powers, dispatching the personal representative of its paramount leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to Damascus for a televised display of solidarity with Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad.

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Aide Saeed Jalili characterised the battles in Syria as ''a conflict between the axis of the resistance and its enemies in the region and the world''.

The international dimensions of the conflict sharpened as the Free Syrian Army claimed it had killed a Russian general working as a consultant to the Syrian defence minister. The FSA said the presence of the general, Vladimir Petrovic Kojaiv, was evidence that Russia was embroiled in "humanitarian crimes" against Syrians.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/iran-blames-us-and-world-powers-for-syrian-conflict-20120808-23ul2.html#ixzz2301JRAlN

Assad's rule disintegrating, ex-PM says after defecting

President Bashar al-Assad controls less than a third of Syria and his power is crumbling, his former prime minister said on Tuesday, in his first public appearance since he defected to the opposition this month.

Riyad Hijab told a news conference in Jordan that the morale of Syrian authorities was low after grappling for 17 months to crush a popular uprising and an armed insurgency against Assad.

"The regime is collapsing, spiritually and financially, as it escalates militarily," he said. "It no longer controls more than 30 per cent of Syrian territory."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/assads-rule-disintegrating-expm-says-after-defecting-20120815-247dl.html#ixzz23aVLSWli

Syria denies vice president has defected, but whereabouts unknown

Syria denied Saturday that Vice President Farouk Shara had defected as opposition reports continued to provide conflicting accounts of whether he had fled to neighboring Jordan or was still in the country.

"Shara has never at any moment thought of leaving the homeland to whatever direction," state media reported, citing a statement released by the vice president's office.

The Syrian Arab News Agency reported that Shara has been working with all sides to end the bloodshed in the 17-month conflict in Syria. In the release, Shara also welcomed Friday’s appointment of Lakhdar Brahimi as the new United Nations envoy to Syria.

However, a spokesman with the rebel Free Syrian Army said Friday that Shara had left the country. Meanwhile, an official with the opposition Syrian National Council told Al Arabiya news channel that Shara had planned to defect and leave the country but that he was being held under house arrest.

If true, the defection would be the biggest blow yet to the government of President Bashar Assad and the latest in a series of defections that have raised questions about how long his government can last. Last week, Prime Minister Riyad Hijab fled to Jordan with his family and has said the government controls only 30% of the country.

But few seem sure of where exactly Shara is.

A spokesman with the Syrian National Council’s media bureau said it did not know Shara’s whereabouts with certainty but was working on confirming the news of his defection.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/08/syria-denies-vice-president-has-defected-whereabouts-unknown.html

He's baaaaack!

Syria VP Al-Sharaa appears in public, ending defection rumor

Syrian Vice President Farouk Al-Sharaa has made his first public appearance in several weeks, ending rumors that he defected.

Al-Sharaa was last seen at the funeral of four top Syrian government officials who were killed in a blast in Damascus on July 18. Since then, speculation has circulated that he defected to Jordan in what would have been a blow to Bashar Assad's regime.

Jordan and Al-Sharaa's office repeatedly denied he defected. On Sunday, reporters saw Al-Sharaa exit his car and walk to his office for a meeting with Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Iran's powerful parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/26/13486460-syria-vp-al-sharaa-appears-in-public-ending-defection-rumor?lite

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