BEIRUT — The signs are not good for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the tightly knit network of relatives, security agencies, Baath Party members and business associates that dominates the country.

The regime is increasingly isolated at home and abroad, but remains bunkered down and ready to fight to the end. The exact nature of that end game is not clear, but seems imminent now, especially in view of just the past week’s events. The most telling:

The Iranian foreign minister publicly said that the Assad regime should respond to the legitimate political grievances of the citizens, meaning that the current military crackdown is not sufficient to calm things down and maintain regime incumbency. The Hezbollah leader in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, also spoke out on the need for all parties to work together to resolve the tensions in Syria peacefully.

When Syria’s two closest allies in the world — Iran and Hezbollah — publicly acknowledge that the problems in Syria are deep and cannot be resolved by current hard security measures, this is a signal that Syria is in deep trouble.

Also in the region, Turkey continued to pressure the Assad government, and went so far as to say that if it is forced to choose between supporting the leaders or the people of Syria, it would support the people.