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Time’s up for the Assad regime

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Until late November , Assad and many outside observers had considered the Syrian conflict to be indefinitely frozen.

With Israel having significantly weakened Iran and its key proxy Hezbollah , Iran no longer has the capacity to protect Assad .

Russia has come to see the Assad regime as no longer necessary for its influence in Syria .

Even Arab countries that had normalised diplomatic relations with Syria have been markedly quiet.