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These days it happens to Iran itself. Such was their hatred of Iran’s rulers that after they had smashed up the palace of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s fallen dictator, in Damascus this week ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Speaking from the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Al-Sharaa told Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that Syria had previously become 'a platform for Iran to control key Arab capitals ...