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@texas nato doesnt care about neither democracy for syrians nor for preserving syrian lives. It cares only for its strategic interests in the region which in my opinion lay in laying waste to any arab state that is not friendly, or at least neutral towards israel. Hence the destruction of iraq and syria.
Nato doesnt want to see a collapse of assad for several reasons, they are interested in a fragmented syria that suffers from a long civil war that will polarize muslims for decades to come. Assad regime at this point is too fragile to withstand a military strike, as is the diplomatic relation with russia and to a lesser extent china.

texas, this conflict was initiated by saudi, prolonged by saudi, and will be fueled by saudi.
saudi, if any, bears responsibility for this conflict. iran is in the position of reaction here, reaction being support of the regime. saudi is in the position of action, action being support of the rebels in their bid to topple the regime.
if you are to blame anyone for the destruction of syria, blame the side that took action, not the natural reaction of supporting an allied regime.
besides it is russia, not iran, that assad ultimately obeys. it is clear that moscow's support, rather than tehran's, is what kept assad afloat until now. what assad has done, and is doing, until now is based completely on moscow's advice as they are the ones offering assad the diplomatic support and manoeuvring the regime through the murky world of global geopolitics.

Texas "Russia is ready to drop Bashar, and agreed with US/West on new Syria. Iran who is providing the bulk of support on the ground to Bashar, has not yet come to terms with that agreement. "
Pure speculation. I could go on and speculate that part of iran's deal with the world powers on the nuclear program included a pro assad settlement but neither me nor you are qualified to speculate with unsupported theories.
What I can comment on is what I see daily on the news; that russia is a staunch supporter of the assad regime and that the west are half hearted supporters of the opposition at best.
P.s. russia is expert at tricky diplomatic tactics and deceptive official and semi official statements. It is very difficult to gauge their commitment to any mysterious post assad "agreement"

@texas for russia and putin its not about the money. Its about influence. Syria was never lucrative for russia financially. It was a state firmly aligned with moscow.
As for al sisi and putin, I dont think saudi arabia was very pleased with the russian reproachement.
As for HA's value to iran, I think that by preventing assad's collapse they proved their value and I see no scenario where tehran would 'give up' on HA so to speak.