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Syria is Iran's Stalingrad : Comments
By Gary Gambill, published 18/6/2013The claim that Iran is winning in Syria is dead wrong.
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That may be true, it probably is, but there are so many other issues besides oil - the cross-cutting issues of secular democratic versus dictatorship, and Sunni versus Shi'a, for two other factors. Each of the countries in the region have strong nationalist ambitions, the Saudis, Turkey, the various Gulf States, Iran.
And I do recall a few years ago an initiative to pipe natural gas from Iran and Turkmenistan across the Caspian and through Russia, bypassing Turkey, and in opposition to another pipeline planned from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan through Georgia, with Chinese backing. It's a very messy world :)
Joe