Even before Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, created a dynasty that has endured since 1970, Syria was governed by a succession of tyrants.

即使是在巴沙尔 阿萨德及他的父亲哈菲兹 阿萨德1970年创建王朝之前，叙利亚不断由暴君统治着。

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Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez al-Assad, founder of the regime, battled the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s.

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Videos posted to YouTube from inside a border station at the new gate showed a rebel tearing up a poster of al-Assad, while another rebel smashed portraits of the president and his father, Hafez al-Assad, who led the country until 2000.

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As a young man, he was part of a failed uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against that country's dictator, Hafez al-Assad.

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