Foreign policy rifts beset Arabs ahead of summit

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* Arabs in disarray over Iran, Syria, Egypt * Syria's war echoes region's sectarian strains * Most Arab leaders wary of fledgling US-Iranian thaw (Adds Iraqi foreign minister, paragraphs 7-9) By Sami Aboudi and Sylvia Westall DUBAI/KUWAIT, March 23 (Reuters) - Rifts over foreign policy will likely make it harder for Arab leaders meeting at a summit this week to forge a common stand on regional challenges, including what many of them see as a threat from Iranian-U.S. rapprochement. And while the Arab League meeting may agree more humanitarian action in response to Syria's war, any communique calling for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad will **t reflect divergent views behind the scenes about the Syrian leader's handling of the conflict. Syria and Iran are **t the only points of contention at the annual summit, scheduled to take place in Kuwait on March 25-26. The meeting follows an unprecedented row among members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) alliance of Gulf Arab states over support for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and a verbal spat between Iraq and Saudi Arabia over violence in Iraq's Anbar province.

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