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Upon succeeding his father , Hafez al-Assad , five years ago , President Assad spoke of liberalizing the political environment , but Syria remains a police state , and many Syrians believe power has become concentrated in fewer hands than it was before his father 's death .
 nationality: Hafez al-Assad, Syria
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "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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 nationality: Hafez al-Assad, Syria