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![Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to International Peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a joint press conference in Tehran on October 26, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/185923014.jpg?itok=iLTgtY3k "Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to International Peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a joint press conference in Tehran on October 26, 2013. [AFP]")
![Kurdish people hold flags and shout slogans as they gather to support Syrian Kurds on November 24, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/451691935.jpg?itok=svNPdB6h "Kurdish people hold flags and shout slogans as they gather to support Syrian Kurds on November 24, 2013. [AFP]")
![UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. [jagranjosh]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/Ban-ki-moon.jpg?itok=UuuaAJPb "UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. [jagranjosh]")
![Assad has been clear that he intends to run for re-election to "let the people decide" what they want. [wikia]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/assad_points.jpg?itok=6ZSHWZSR "Assad has been clear that he intends to run for re-election to \"let the people decide\" what they want. [wikia]")
![United Nations-Arab League special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks on September 13, 2013 during a press conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva. [asswat]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/brahimi_geneva.jpg?itok=tlhTMSTx "United Nations-Arab League special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks on September 13, 2013 during a press conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva. [asswat]")
![Lakhdar Brahimi is an Algerian United Nations envoy and adviser, and since August 2012. [guim.co]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/Lakhdar-Brahimi-009.jpg?itok=2laOWXZq "Lakhdar Brahimi is an Algerian United Nations envoy and adviser, and since August 2012. [guim.co]")
