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Russia warns US of ‘extremely dangerous’ fallout of strike on Syria

 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the United States against the ‘extremely dangerous consequences’ of military action against Syria.



Lavrov made the remarks during a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday.

“Sergei Lavrov drew attention to the extremely dangerous consequences of a possible new military intervention for the whole Middle East and North Africa region,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.


It added that Moscow was “deeply alarmed” by Washington’s statement about its readiness to intervene in Syria.

Foreign Minister Lavrov urged restraint during the conversation with John Kerry, the statement said.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on August 23 that the Pentagon was positioning military forces as part of “contingency options” provided to US President Barack Obama regarding Syria.

France and the Israeli regime have also called for military action against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Hagel’s comments have been interpreted as a tacit suggestion that the US may be preparing for a military strike on Syria. The US defense secretary repeated similar remarks on Sunday during a visit to Malaysia.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a recent interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia that any military intervention by the US would end in “failure.”

The United Nations says over 100,000 people have been killed and a total of 7.8 million of others displaced due to the turmoil that has gripped Syria since March 2011.

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What a joke by Russia, if they are serious about Syria defence, they would have already moved military equipment into Syria.

 

I guess that we have to wait and see what happens next as Russia will not allow for Syria to be torn apart by so called western coalition!

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Quote "Fabricated fake chemical attack pretty much gives US government green light to behave like a blind bull charging forward believing they can do anything they want and there will be no consequences for their potential criminal actions however, there will be consequence!"unquote

 

Makes one remember Bush and his weapons of Mass Distructions in Iraq

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Failure awaits any US attack on Syria: President Assad

 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that ‘failure awaits the United States’ if it launches a war on his country.



“Failure awaits the United States as in all previous wars it has unleashed, starting with Vietnam and up to the present day,” Assad said in an interview published on the Russian newspaper Izvestia on Monday.

He was reacting to the recent war rhetoric by US officials about a possible attack on Syria over the government's alleged use of chemical weapons in the country.

Assad rejected as politically motivated the Western allegations about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian army.

“The comments [accusing the government of using chemical weapons] made by politicians in the West and other countries are an insult to common sense... It is nonsense,” Assad stated.


“Would any state use chemical or any other weapons of mass destruction in a place where its own forces are concentrated? That would go against elementary logic.”

The Syrian president also said his country is dealing with both individual terrorist groups and entire terrorist armies that are similar in terms of ideology and are backed by the same sponsors.

Assad said Saudi Arabia is both the ideological and financial sponsor of terrorists, propagating Wahhabi ideology and supplying money to insurgents.

The Syrian president added that there is no army in the world that can be fully operational throughout a country, and this is what terrorists take advantage of.

However, he underlined that the Syrian army can destroy the militancy in the country, not immediately, but eventually.

President Assad noted that tens of thousands of foreign terrorists are passing into Syria every month. He added that the Israeli regime is involved in fighting against the Syrian government and as evidence noted that Israel's treating of “dozens of terrorists in its hospitals.”

Assad said that Western leaders would not succeed in turning Syria into a puppet of the West.

“If someone dreams of turning Syria into a puppet of the West - they won’t succeed.”

The US Department of Defense has said that Washington is ready for military action if US President Barack Obama gives the go ahead.

On Saturday, Obama held high-level talks with his security aides over a range of potential options. France and Israel have already called for military action.

On August 21, the so-called opposition Syrian National Coalition claimed that 1,300 people were killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.

The Syrian government, however, has vehemently rejected the allegation, saying foreign-backed militants had carried out the attack with the aim of framing the government.

On August 24, Syrian forces found chemical agents in tunnels dug by the militants in Jobar.

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US makes anti-Syria claims to manipulate public opinion: Analyst

 

A political analyst says the United States levels false accusations against the Syrian government to manipulate the public opinion against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.



In an interview with Press TV on Friday, Lawrence Davidson, professor at West Chester University, said claims by the US, such as allegations of chemical arms use by government forces in Syria, are aimed at “managing American public opinion, and American public opinion has been managed to be against [President] Assad....”

Commenting on evidence presented by Russia earlier this week, showing that militants, not the Syrian Army, have used chemical weapons during an attack in the country, the analyst pointed out that the revelation shows how in the US information becomes “politically attuned to what's acceptable and what's not acceptable” in the country.

“And so the intelligence information is skewed sometimes subtly and sometimes not so subtly in a direction of political acceptability,” he added.


On Tuesday, the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Russian experts had collected samples at the site of the attack in the region of Khan al-Assal, near Aleppo, where over two dozen people, including 16 Syrian troops, died on March 19.

Britain, France, and the United States have accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons. Damascus has denied the charges, saying it was actually the militants who used chemical weapons on several occasions.

The Syria crisis began in March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of soldiers and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

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Originally Posted by asj:

What a joke by Russia, if they are serious about Syria defence, they would have already moved military equipment into Syria.

 

I guess that we have to wait and see what happens next as Russia will not allow for Syria to be torn apart by so called western coalition!

Russia has been sening military equipment to Syria. Where haev you been on this?

Mr.T

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