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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I would think that Egypt would probably fully comply, however the problem that comes into play is that Russia is working with Iran on this, we've seen some coordination between Iran and Russia.
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"Some coordination"?
Iran has about 15,000 troops in Syria and about 10,000 more it commands via Hezbollah. Russia has an estimated 5,000 or so and growing. The fact of the matter is Assad wouldn't be in power at all if it wasn't for funding from Russia and Iran. Just as the USA funds Jordan, Israel, and Egypt, Russia funds Syria and, to a lesser extent, Iran.
Russia is in it for old cold war reasons. Iran has a dream of extending a #####e empire from their territory to the coast of the Mediterranean and eventually closing that ring around the holy sites in Saudi Arabia.
Russia, not so coincidentally, just announced they were going ahead with a 800 million dollar missile sale to Iran:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34767012