Iran’s Unrealistic Endgame in Syria - Syria in Crisis

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  • Ideas regarding the Syrian crisis were exchanged recently between Iran and Egypt. Iran proposed an initiative but Egypt believed it is weak because the other side might reject it. Information indicates that this initiative included four points.
    – A comprehensive cease-fire at a national level.

    – Forming a national unity government consisting of the regime and the internal Syrian opposition.

    – Laying the grounds for a new regime by transferring presidential powers to the government whereby the government will enjoy wide-ranging powers in the years to come.

    – Preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections.

    Hezbollah, Syria, and Egypt on the verge of an understanding? | Al Akhbar English
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    • Iran’s Unrealistic Endgame in Syria - Syria in Crisis - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
      http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=55323

      Kleib writes that the Egyptian side found the plan weak “because the other side might reject it”—and the Egyptians would be right to think so. While points 1, 3, and 4 are virtually identical to what was proposed in the Geneva communiqué of June 2012, which later formed the starting point of the Geneva II conference on peace in Syria, the phrasing of point 2 is a deal breaker.