Three Paragraphs from the News

"Tehran is the main regional ally of Assad's regime, advocating dialogue between the government and opposition.

According to IRNA, Salehi called for "an immediate end ... to foreign interference and arms shipments ... to Syria and the support of some regional and international parties for terrorist action".

"The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns all violence and destructive action and believes that dialogue is the only solution to end the Syrian crisis," the minister said.

Meanwhile, the White House said Wednesday that President Bashar al-Assad was losing control of Syria, after a deadly attack on his inner circle, and that the United States was working urgently with international partners to push for a political transition there."

From: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/07/2012718141115371857.html

I thought they were very interesting. Who is advocating for dialogue, who is for arms, who is for violence? It once again made me ponder my ethnocentric perspective.