0515 GMT: Iranian State media was overtaken on Wednesday by news from Damascus, as the Assad regime was rocked by attacks and the bomb that killed four of its top officials.
The day had started with the assurance of Press TV, "Syrian Security Forces in Full Control of Damascus". By late afternoon, however, the new message was that of Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, in a phone call to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, “Today’s terrorist attack…indicates that terrorism is taking root in Syria and the region."
Later, Minister of Defense Ahmad Vahidi put out the defiant line in a letter to Syria’s new Defense Minister General, Fahd al-Jassem al-Freij, appointed after the death of his predecessor in the Damascus bomb:
Today’s terrorist act against a number of Syrian military and security officials, especially Defense Minister Lieutenant General Dawoud Rajiha saddened and pained me. Terrorists have never managed to overcome the will of nations and this time they will not be able to defeat the will of the resistant and dignified nation of Syria.
Fars proclaims, from a "military source", that the "terrorists will be cleared" from Damascus in the next 48 hours. And IRNA has the most interesting strategy: it sweeps the events in the Syrian capital off its homepage in favour of last night's speech by the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, with the headline, "Syria is the Bridge Between Iran and the Resistance".
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