[Telegraph-UK] Con Coughlin - While Tony Blair suggests that the West should engage in a constructive dialogue with both Syria and Iran in an attempt to resolve all the ills of the Middle East, what he singularly fails to understand is that, far from being interested in pursuing a dialogue with the West, the Syrian and Iranian regimes are engaged in an elemental battle with the West to define the future shape of the Middle East. Far from wanting to work with the West to make the region a better place, the ruling classes in Iran and Syria want to keep it as it is. The unreconstructed autocrats of Damascus and Teheran are viscerally opposed to any attempt to make life better for the people they rule.
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