Syria Jilts Iran?

In my last installment on the cold war we are waging to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, I suggested that Syria was in the process of taking a bribe. I suggested that they were given back their waning influence in Lebanon and offered better ties with the West if they sold Iran out. Lo and behold, Nicholas Sarkozy is in Damascus saying that Iran better come clean or those big meanies in Israel might bomb them, and Junior Assad is in full agreement. (All of this notwithstanding the Dutch, who recently claimed to stand down their fearsome espionage activities in Iran because the US was ready to whack Iran.) Has the bribe been accepted and is Assad now letting Iran know who his new friends are? If so, it would be an encouraging development, indicating that we've pulled one more rug out from under the mullahs by taking away one of their key allies in the region. If the Syrians can tell us what they know and the Israelis can sow enough fear by making a potential this-time-around look alot like last-time-around, then we stand a good chance of having diffused the Iranian bomb without it getting too messy.