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In that same year, she said in an interview with CNN that she was "sceptical" that the Syrian regime was behind a chemical weapons attack which killed dozens of people.

“We understood the Soviet Union was an existential threat, certainly with its nuclear capabilities, it was, and Russia is, but China is even more sinister. It's more insidious in what they have done under this communist regime.”

"What we have to be is more strategic - we have to make sure that prison capacity meets demand and that means we have to look at the question of demand on prison places and that's I think where looking at the sentencing regime is necessary and important."

Would some of those players not here in Athens have been more minded to report had this been Tuchel's first game in charge as opposed to the dying embers of the Carsley interim regime?

Iran-backed militia in the area are a concern for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, too, after years of civil war.