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How will resolution of the Syrian crisis develop,
and how will Washington build its relations with Russia and the states of the South Caucasus in this context?
Yevgeny Satanovsky,president of the Institute of the Middle East
The Syrian situation showed that the Russian and the American leaderships can talk to each other at least.
Even though there is no particular love between the Russian and American presidents,
some reasonable things, from the American point of view, were accepted.
This is good.
Unfortunately, the deepest degradation of the political elite, the expert society of the United States,
leads to such decisions as the support of radical Islamists all over the Middle East
from Afghanistan to Libya.
It has resulted in Americaís complete failure everywhere
and the danger of the improvement of radical Islamism.
Letís remember the 11th of September last year.
But for Russia, American failure is not good either,
because people who bomb the U.S. and attack American diplomats today are not Russia's friends.
As for chemical weapons, Iran seems to have evidence that it was the opposition
that used chemical weapons in SyriaÖ
The opposition has many times stated about the chemical weapon of Assad,
and it always failed, trying to organize provocations to involve the West into an intervention against Assad.
The Iranians are probably right.
Moreover, along with the Iranians there is evidence from neutral sources,
including people who were imprisoned by the opposition,
they were Western journalists and professionals who used to support the opposition,
but then stopped doing it.
Unfortunately, it seems militant groups fighting against Assad do have chemical weapons today.