Syria is naturally unstable. By attaching itself to Iran, and fighting Israel, the Syrian regime hopes to stabilize itself.
From the article:
But it wasn’t until the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon that Syria finally beat the Muslim Brothers. By joining Iran in the so-called “Islamic resistance” against Israel, Assad associated the Alawites with a cause larger [...]

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