"United Nations (CNN) -- Embroiled in a tight campaign for re-election, President Barack Obama warned Iran and Syria that their leaders are on the losing end of a sweeping tide of democracy in the region.
"In Syria, the future must not belong to a dictator who massacres his people," Obama told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. The U.S. leader also blamed Iran for "propping up a dictatorship in Damascus," restricting freedoms at home and supporting terrorist groups abroad.
Throughout his speech, Obama emphasized that unrest in the region -- namely, the 18-month-old Syrian civil war and recent protests against an obscure anti-Islam film clip -- is taking place in the middle of an unfinished regional revolution that brought an end to oppressive regimes in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia."
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