Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


A New Alliance

June 18th, 2008 by Sarah

Abbas Djavadi at Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty asks what will be the consequences of the Syria-Israel talks on the Syria-Iran relationship. “Turkish-mediated Israeli-Syrian talks have alarmed Tehran. The conservative Iranian newspaper Kayhan, which is close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, argued that Syria should not give up a ‘strategic alliance’ for the sake of ‘an unimportant piece of land’ [the Golan Heights].”

Brain Ulrich at American Footprints agrees. “The only thing holding Syria and Iran together at this point is their enmity with the United States and Israel.  In other words, it’s not just that making a deal with Syria would lead to a break between that country and Iran, but that the absence of such a deal is the only reason those two countries are together in the first place.”


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