Iran & Syria: How Arab and Western countries are shifting posturing toward Damascus - Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : When this happens in the coming months, Iran is expected to become much stronger financially and enjoy unprecedented economic and financial power.
59% : The popularity of Iran and Hezbollah boomed and was hailed by allies, friends and (many) enemies alike.
59% : What raised severe alarms in the US and other Persian Gulf countries is the strength Iran has reached and the power it is enjoying as an unintended consequence of the Syrian war in 2011.
56% : Undoubtedly, the Iranian influence and military presence in Syria were consequences of the global war against Syria and its request to Iran for support.
53% : Moreover, the Iraqi summit enabled Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, and France to meet and warm up their relationship, creating more rapprochement between regional states.
51% : The undeclared meetings in Baghdad between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Jordan and Iran, and Egypt and Iran helped break the ice among these regional countries and allowed them to discuss important affairs of great concern.
49% : Thus, Russia is sending the message to the US and Israel that the Syrian forces on the Syrian borders are a guarantor of Israel's protection and an indication to Iran that Moscow wishes for the occupied Golan Heights front to remain cold.
49% : The return of the official Jordanian-Syrian relationship is related to border security, preventing old and new smuggling roads between the two countries, and combating terrorism.
49% : The international community will have no choice but to embrace Syria, the sooner the better, before the nuclear deal with Iran is implemented and when all sanctions are lifted.
47% : The goal -- or perhaps the wish -- is to offer President Bashar al-Assad the opportunity to rethink his global and regional relations and remove Iran and Russia's exclusive roles in the Levant.
44% : Moreover, Iran gathered more kudos when the US was unable to destabilize Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.
41% : The Israelis repeatedly said they feared the presence of Hezbollah and Iran on the Syrian borders and failed to impose a zone free of the Iranian presence wherever the Syrian leadership wished it to be.
40% : Iran gained unprecedented popularity in Syria because of Washington's policy, which wanted to create a failed state in Syria and remove President Assad from power.

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