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Arya News - As city after city fell to a lightning rebel offensive in Syria last December, Iranian forces and diplomats supporting Bashar al-Assad saw the writing on the wall, abandoning the longtime ruler days before his ousting, sources told AFP. During Syria`s civil war, which erupted in 2011 following the government`s brutal repression of pro-democracy protests, Iran was one of Damascus`s biggest backers, sending Assad military advisers and forces from its Revolutionary Guards.At a site that used to be