Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad will ‘survive’ rebel uprising, only full-scale foreign intervention can unseat him, says Iraqi minister Hoshyar Zebari

"The opposition still hopes that if it hangs on long enough there will be international intervention to overthrow Mr Assad along the lines of Nato military intervention in Libya in 2011."
No, the opposition is hoping it will get the weaponry to complete the job themselves, claims like this are designed to prevent that happening, and enable the slaughter to continue.
And of course Assad has only survived so far due to massive foreign intervention amounting to war.