the regime insisted and iran insisted that two shia villages also have to be evacuated as a quid pro quo for removing some 80,000 people from aleppo city. so now sunni jihadists are taking advantage of what they see as a seck tar yan cleansing and striking at the shia of syria. this is a meltdown situation and only going to get worse. i m seeing images of the leader of the iran s revolutionary guard, that s such an inciting piece of propaganda. sunnis are going to now really want to strike out at the shia. the regime has played a very poor game at this and iran has too. even the former secretary general of hezbollah, a prominent shia cleric said it is now the karbala of all muslims, a symbolic tragedy that affected the shia centuries ago. he sees this an aattack on all muslims and will engender a
syria is important. who are watching what is happening in iraq as this seck tar yan issues moves into there and into lebanon and destabilized in jordan, why have we been so slow, so inept in so many ways at helping build capacity of this opposition that we have said publicly that we support? well, senator, it s a worthy and important question. i ve had a number of different meetings with the opposition over the course of the months now since i came in in february. beginning with a meeting in room and subsequently in instan bull and amman, jordan. the opposition one has to remember, as little as a year ago, there was no great clarity to the structure of that