Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa made his first public appearance in over a month on Sunday, following rumors that he had tried to defect and was under house arrest.Sharaa, who met the head of the Iranian parliament's foreign policy committee, Aladin Borujerdi, was last seen in public at a state funeral for top security officials who were killed in a Damascus
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kaboom on July 18.
Speculation has swirled since last week over the fate of Sharaa, the most powerful Sunni Moslem figure in Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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's minority Alawite-led regime, since the opposition claimed he had tried to defect.
Assad's regime has been rattled by several high-profile defections as the Syrian conflict has escalated, including former prime minister Riad Hijab and prominent General Manaf Tlass, one of Assad's childhood friends.