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By Jubin M. Goodarzi

The alliance among Syria and Iran has proved to be an everlasting function at the political panorama of the center East. This e-book strains the serious levels within the evolution and consolidation of the alliance within the Nineteen Eighties, and gives motives for its toughness into the twenty first century.

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The raid on Al-Walid Perhaps the most notable instance of Syrian–Iranian cooperation against the Iraqi war effort in the early stages of the conflict occurred in spring 1981.

And, with Assad’s hopes for a ceasefire and quick end to the fighting dashed, the spectre of a triumphant Iraq prompted him to take drastic measures to help avert an Iraqi victory and ensure Iran’s ability to fight on. The Syrian regime feared that if Iraq decisively defeated Iran, it would come under a direct threat from Baghdad. Furthermore, a victorious and confident Iraq would be in a favourable position to assist the Syrian Muslim Brethren openly and challenge Syrian interests in the region.

Conversely, the war facilitated the transformation of the Syrian–Iranian rapprochement into a formal alliance. At a time when many of its Arab neighbours were overtly siding with Iraq and the situation at the war front was anything but favourable, Iran clearly valued its friendship with Syria. Besides the vital role Damascus played in brokering the Iranian military resupply effort, Tehran considered it vital to cultivate a close friendship with the Syrian Arab Republic to prevent the formation of a hostile Arab union against Iran.

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