Many Syrians blame the president's brother, Maher Assad, who heads a crack army division, for the regime's excesses.
In our previous work, a mini-max optimisation strategy was developed within the framework of a multiple model approach, in which a global controller can be designed without the requirement of membership/validity functions used in conventional methods, and the regime division was realised using a gap metric method.
Iran's parliament revealed it planned to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but refrained under orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, exposing a deepening division within the regime.
On the one hand, this may, again, result in internal divisions for the regime.
The attorney general's rebuke of the Supreme Court's action, leading to the court's partial retreat, indicates that there are already divisions within the regime.
With the Islamic Republic weaker than at any time in its 31-year history, fractured by regime divisions and confronted by a Green movement it has tried to quash through force, U.S. sanctions are abetting the regime's communications blackouts.
In 1988, increasing divisions between the regime's rival camps had opened a Pandora's box leading to mass protests, a tumultuous democratization process, the regime's temporary loss of power, a coup d'etat and a subsequent decade-long civil war.
Fordow was a "safe place", and there was no justification for closing it.There are undoubtedly divisions within the regime between those who think a deal of some kind is possible and those who believe that having already suffered so much for the sake of the nuclear programme, it would be unthinkable at this advanced stage to accept restrictions dictated by America.
For the young activists, some of whom I interviewed recently in Damascus, the uprising has been about reclaiming the country from the ruling clique; transcending ethnic and sectarian divisions that the regime has manipulated to maintain its power; and forging a national identity tied to rights and obligations of citizenship.
The only logical solution is to remove the socially divisive separate development regime which the state/private sector division constitutes.
