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Leland vittert is live in jerusalem with the latest now. leland? >> reporter: and, jenna, this was really the fear, that the syrian civil war, that proxy war going on would spill outside into the neighboring countries, lebanon being one of the prime targets. twin suicide bombs outside of the iranian embassy. remember, the iranians are the top of the triangle here. they support president bashar assad inside syria, they also support the militant group hezbollah that is fighting in syria to help president assad against these al-qaeda groups that are sort of the rebels there inside of syria, and n...

Made any changes to our force posture to this point. the credible threat of military force has been key to driving diplomatic progress, and it's important that the assad regime lives up to its obligations under the framework agreement. so this obviously means the u.s. will keep warships in the region. that is showing the force. is that enough to sink teeth into this to forcibly get the assad regime to comply? >> potentially, but the worry is the regime could use the excuse of a proxy war going on, a civil war in his country. he could use that excuse to say this is why i can't implement this de...

Assad regime survive and possibly will result in the death of tens of thousands of more syrians, but also this massive refugee crisis in jordan and turkey. there are even 200,000 syrian refugees in egypt. that is destabilizing all the regimes in the region and send the exact wrong signal to iran. >> we've got a region here that is being, it's not only lebanon as you point out and iraq and the rest of the region, you've got a proxy war going on, shia versus sunni. iran engaged so deliberately through hezbollah. and continuously arming the assad. what about the effect elsewhere in the region? yo...

>> trace: give me an idea of what other powers are keeping the war going. >> exactly. this is a proxy war going on. russia may be trying to play both sides of the coin. iran is not concerned with diplomatic niceties, they're supplying most of the weapons to the syrian regime. on the other side, turkey/g:.?un qatar providing money but people are getting scared, especially the western intelligence services, about where the weapons are going and in whose hands they'll fall into the hands of, meaning hardcore islamist, sympathizers, those kinds bringing fighters into syria and are not interested i...

To try to shape the environment if we're really serious about getting rid of this regime. we need to be able to understand who we're dealing with. this is critically important for us, jenna, to understand that. then we should understand we should make decisions about what we want to funnel that, whether it's information, whether it's intelligence, are these people we can deal with, and then, of course, down the road whether we would want to give them weapons. now, some members of congress are calling for that, some are calling for a no-fly zone. there's a lot of things at stake here. but it al...