In Shift, Iran’s President Calls for End to Syrian Crackdown
N Y Times / NEIL MacFARQUHAR
08-Sep-2011

For years, posters celebrating the decades-old alliance joining Syria and Iran festooned the streets and automobiles of the Syrian capital — the images of Presidents Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embroidered with roses and daffodils.

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