President Barack Obama enters his second term with a pledge that will test either his resolve or his elusiveness, namely the Iran pledge, in which he vowed not to allow the Islamic Republic of Iran to become a nuclear state.

It is quite significant that Hezbollah is being implicated, by a decision from Iran, in the battle taking place inside Syria, by providing fighters and equipment, and in attempting to divert attention away from the battle in Syria, by sending an unmanned drone dubbed "Ayoub" over Israeli territory.

So far, no one knows when Syria's torment will end -- after the American elections, at the end of the year, in a few months, before two years? The sole certainty, which in turn is a passing one, is that no qualitative change will take place before these presidential elections.