If this is true then either Iran is playing a deep game (Assad was their boy) or they’ve made a real blunder and lost their foothold in Damascus.
According to other Arab newspaper reports sources close to Assad says president in good health and high spirits, and will deliver a keynote speech in the coming days.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/al-arab-assad.jpg
(See last lines, below confirmation of attack.)
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