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While seeki ining iranian assistance. i know it's just a piece of paper, but this is pretty significant. >> i think it's very significant. first of all it's a very strong statement secondsly, he mentions assaad by name as he pointed out earlier. and third, what's most interesting to me is that he calls out iran here. and he says that assaad is getting iranian assistance in repressing syria's citizens. now iran isn't very popular with lots of people in that part of the world and obama is not exactly making a new enemy by calling out iran, but a very strong statement and interesting that he did ...

In this instance in syria, he's very slow to come out condemning assaad, but he nichfinally has. is the u. -- >> what i think happened was that the president began actually listening to the secretary of state hillary clinton who really made big news yesterday but it got buried or should have made big news. she's actually the one that called out iran first. she said it's further evidence of the hypocrisy of the iranian regime. we want people to understand that iran wants to destabilize countries, and syria has been the loading dock for the export of supplies and goods and bombs and everything e...

Town have evacuated. >> let's take you to egypt. a fireball erupting overnight after a gas pipeline explosion. look at these pictures. flames filling the sky. the pipeline pumps natural gas to israel and jordan. right now authorities are trying to figure out what triggered the explosion. no one was hurt. in february in the same town a gasline was set on fire and that incident state media suspected a terrorist attack. syria intensifies its brutal crackdown this morning as more gunfire and arrests and reports of dead people lightning the streets. the army continues to attack civilians in daraa...

Assad pour into a damascus suburb that's become a hotbed for protests in the country. witnesses say 2,000 security police are now checking i.d. cards and arresting pro democracy sympathizers in the area. the latest demonstrations come as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, confirms that the united states has evidence that iran is supporting the syrian crackdown. >> president assad is disingenuously blaming outsiders, while at the same time seeking iranian assistance in repressing syria's citizens. through the same brutal tactics that have been used by the iranian regime. u.n. secret...

Been used by the arian regime. we have said repeatedly that we are very conscious of and concerned by the evidence of active iranian involvement and support on behalf of the syrian government in its repression of its people. >> we have our national investigation -- >> syria's u.n. ambassador is rejecting calls for an independent investigation into the reported deaths of those hundreds of demonstrators by security forces. in libya, moammar gadhafi's forces continue an all-out assault on misrata. the bombardment has virtually reduced the strategic city to rubble. one resident saying it's like ...