Syria Video Discussion: The Dwindling Resources of the Regime (Al Jazeera English)
Monday, December 24, 2012 at 7:42
Scott Lucas in Al Jazeera English, Alan George, Durmus Aydin, EA Middle East and Turkey, Inside Story, Middle East and Iran, Samer Abboud

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Syria Video Discussion: The Dwindling Resources of the Regime (Al Jazeera English)
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I have often argued that the political and military pressure on the Syrian regime is matched by the economic squeeze on it, with the disruptions of civil war and sanctions eroding its position.

Al Jazeera English takes up the theme in Inside Syria, speaking with Durmus Aydin, the Vice President of the Turkish-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation; economist Samer Abboud; and Alan George of Oxford University.

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