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German FM Steinmeier visits Middle East again
BERLIN - Just hours after the ceasefire in Lebanon took effect, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was jetting out of Berlin for his third visit to the Middle East in the space of just four weeks. The latest tour will be the first to include Syria, which the head of German diplomacy believes is an essential partner if any kind of enduring peace is to be achieved. Along with Iran, President Bashar Assad's regime is believed to be the principal sponsor of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamist movement that has fired thousands of missiles at northern Israel in recent weeks.Washington continues to regard Damascus as a rogue state and Syria's international isolation has driven it into the arms of Iran and the Islamist extremists whether it likes it or not, in the view of German diplomats.
"We have to test whether Syria really wants to hitch itself to Iran in the long term," said Steinmeier in a newspaper interview.
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