Iran backs Assad, so your comment makes no sense.
You don’t have the relationship quite right. It is an alliance Iran and Assad’s family who are not islamic at all.
The obamaumao’s think they have a moderate Iranian regime to do biz with on nukes, and that the “friends” of Assad will be nullified or controlled by this “change” of type of shiites.
This has the hands of a certain branch of Saud— the Carter Center, all over it. Oh yes, and the liberal left that thinks we can do this— WHILE we are asking the Iranian Air Force for help against ISIS— which the US created. The Saudis would have us bog down with shia lunatics.. to the endpoint of weakening us further. Can assure you Israel is not in favor of it. This is why obamaumao made a special trip with literally EVERYBODY who had a contact with House of Saud (even Sandy Berger for God’s sake) to meet the new Sultan of Saud. All of the lickspittle trough eaters to try to figure out WHO is running what. So now the madrassah’s are up in control over the 79 year old sultan, said to be alzheimer’s.
This is utter complete insanity. And anyone who thinks it can be “managed” by the Muslim Brotherhood is out of their GD minds. The people who want this want the Caliphate complete— and they want it as a soft Caliphate.
Kerri’ the verrry french— who hates Israel... wants US boots on the ground in Syria.. and so does McCain. And Lindsey Graham. One lying bunch of Beltway bandits.