Whatever the official explanations given in Tehran over Bashar al-Assad’s downfall, Iran’s thuggish regime must have noticed that no amount of terror and torture can assure a hated regime’s permanence.
Author: Mohammad Khoshbayan
Mohammad Khoshbayan is a writer for kayhan-London, a Persian-language Iranian online media outlet based in London.
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