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| How Russia wooed a key IRGC commander in Syria |
| 2020-04-25 |
| [MENA] Flipping a prominent commander exposes the central tensions between Moscow and Tehran As Russian maestro Valery Gergiev strolled onstage amid the ruins of Palmyra in 2016, few were in any doubt how much of a PR coup the orchestral concert was for Russia. Moscow had helped recapture a historic site, ravaged by ISIS, but more importantly, they had beaten the Iranians to the prize. |
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