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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/assad-emails-lift-lid-inner-circle
Secret Assad Emails Show Advice from Iran
(Guardian-UK) Robert Booth, Mona Mahmood and Luke Harding - More than 3,000 emails from private accounts belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma, were intercepted by members of the opposition Supreme Council of the Revolution group between June and early February. Activists say they were passed username and password details by a mole in the president's inner circle. The emails show that Assad received advice from Iran on several occasion. Ahead of a speech in December his media consultant reported on "consultations with...the media and political adviser for the Iranian ambassador." They also show that Assad made light of reforms he had promised in an attempt to defuse the crisis, referring to "rubbish laws of parties, elections, media." They further show the president's wife spending thousands of dollars over the Internet for designer goods.