Syrian rebels plan chemical attack on Israel from Assad-controlled territories – media

9 September 2013 — Voice of Russia

A chemical attack may be launched on Israel by Syrian rebels from government-controlled territories as a “major provocation”, a number of sources have told RT.

The news comes as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed that Syria puts its chemical weapons arsenal under international control for subsequent destruction in order to prevent a possible military strike against the war-torn republic.

Moscow also urged the Syrian authorities to join the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The offer has already been passed over to the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, who met Lavrov in Moscow for talks on Monday.

Voice of Russia, RT

Iran Foreign Minister: “We Informed US of Chemical Weapons Transfer to Syria 9 Months Ago”

1 September 2013 — Iran Times

Interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
By: Aseman Weekly

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic had sent an official memo to the United States through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran (which serves as the US interests section in Iran) last December, in which Washington had been forewarned that “handmade articles of chemical weapons, including sarin gas, are being transferred into Syria.”

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"Friends of Syria" meeting a Fiasco

23 June 2013 — Voltaire Network

The meeting of the “Friends of Syria” held on Saturday, 22 June, in Doha (Qatar), closed unsuccessfully. France, the United Kingdom and the United States had announced at the Lough Erne G8 summit that they would officially be arming the Free Syrian Army. On 14 June, the latter had provided the list of weapons and ammunition they needed.

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Obama’s Agenda: Direct Military Intervention and the Relentless Destruction of Syria as a Nation State By Shamus Cooke

2 March, 2013 Global Research

The recent announcement that the United States would increase its “non lethal” military aid to Syria’s rebels shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Some speculated that Obama — having been repeatedly proved wrong about the Syria government’s stability — would leave Syria in silent humiliation.

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Hillary Clinton: Thwarting “Re-Sovietization” or Imposing Americanization? By Boris Volkhonsky

7 December, 2012Voice of Russia

“We are trying to figure out effective ways to slow down or prevent it.”

Indeed, they are. For that, the US has launched full-scale wars in close vicinity to the region (not to mention local clashes and a “limited” use of drones on a wider number of countries), slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, depriving them of the basic human right – the right to live; successfully destabilized the situation in their “Greater Middle East”, flooded the whole of Central Asia with Afghan opium and heroin (with metastasis reaching as far as Russia and Western Europe). And after that Ms. Hillary is trying to present her country as a champion of human rights and finds it OK for herself to criticize others.

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West’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Canard: Prelude to Intervention

7 December, 2012 — Xinhua News Agency

News Analysis: Talks of Syrian chemical weapons: prelude for intervention or further pressure on Damascus?

“The real concern is that the U.S. may have other plans; to provide the terrorist groups with such weaponries…to justify any foreign intervention in Syria’s internal affairs,” Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad told local media on Thursday.

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Russian expert warns of possibility of large-scale war in Middle East

24 November 2012 — The Voice of Russia

Turkey has asked NATO to deploy “Patriot” missiles on the Turkish side near the Turkish-Syrian border.

In an interview with the Voice of Russia, Russian analyst Konstantin Sivkov said: “Deploying these missiles in Turkey will be dangerous for Syrian military planes – this is obvious. A lesser obvious thing is that Turkey is getting ready for a war against Syria. If an attack on Syria from the territory of Turkey does take place, this will most likely be an attack not of the Turkish army, but of NATO’s forces.”

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Video: 'Not even in Cold War’s darkest days': International law scrapped in anti-Assange crusade

16 August, 2012, 23:46 — RT

Ecuador’s move to grant Julian Assange political asylum has shown the true face of the current world order, highlighting more clearly than ever the line between the American Empire and the rest of the world, former CIA officer Ray McGovern told RT. Continue reading

Video: ‘Not even in Cold War’s darkest days’: International law scrapped in anti-Assange crusade

16 August, 2012, 23:46 — RT

Ecuador’s move to grant Julian Assange political asylum has shown the true face of the current world order, highlighting more clearly than ever the line between the American Empire and the rest of the world, former CIA officer Ray McGovern told RT. Continue reading

RT: Washington's road to Iran goes through Syria By Veronika Krasheninnikova

2 July, 2012, 13:21 — RT

Assad supporters

Syrians in a damaged building hold up a portrait of their President Bashar al-Assad (AFP Photo / Louai Beshara)

The results of the Geneva talks on Syria depend on whom you ask.

 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists that the principle of “mutual consent” on which a “transitional government”in Syria would be based, means President Assad has to go. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the contrary, insists the formation of a “transitional government” will be made on inclusive basis.

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