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It was a strategy that worked well for Hafez al-Assad , Bashar 's father and predecessor as president , who would often rely on proxies to carry on his battles while he tried to use Syria 's influence with the Palestinian groups as a bargaining chip to advance Syria 's agenda .
 nationality: Hafez al-Assad, Syria; nationality: Hafez al-Assad, Syria
Given options, please tell me the relationships of all the listed entity pairs.Output format is "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: ethnicity, place lived, geographic distribution, company industry, country of administrative divisions, administrative division of country, location contains, person of company, profession, ethnicity of people, company shareholder among major shareholders, sports team of location, religion, neighborhood of, company major shareholders, place of death, nationality, children, company founders, company founded place, country of capital, company advisors, sports team location of teams, place of birth 
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 Entity Pairs:  Hafez al-Assad, Syria; Hafez al-Assad, Syria 
Answer:
 nationality: Hafez al-Assad, Syria; nationality: Hafez al-Assad, Syria