US takes aim at Iran; Russia over Syria


Damascus(nie)  The United States has said Iran was stepping up its support for the Syrian regime and Russia, which is still arming, raising fears on Friday that the conflict may extend the country's borders.The assessment by Hillary Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State and Vice President Joe Biden is ready to discuss the crisis in meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Minister of the Syrian opposition and Maaz Khatib, head.New concerns have arisen about the conflict drawing in 22 months in the wider region after Damascus threatened to retaliate over an Israeli air raid and a key ally Iran warned the attack would have "serious consequences".Accused the regime of President Bashar al-Assad Israel sent warplanes to attack a military research center in Jamraya, near Damascus, on Wednesday.Israel has so far maintained a stony silence, as well as separate reports its aircraft targeted a weapons convoy near the Lebanese border.
But Israeli media speculated that the alleged air strike on the convoy could trigger a chain reaction, and said troops were on high alert in northern Israel.Israel warned repeatedly that if Syria chemical weapons falling into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon Shiite, Israel's arch-foe document Damascus ally, and this would be a cause for war.Lebanese army, meanwhile, said two soldiers were killed in a clash with unidentified gunmen in a village near the border with Syria on Friday, with the army chasing a man wanted for "numerous terrorist attacks."After the air strike alleged on Wednesday, said Damascus "Syria has the right to defend itself and its territory and sovereignty."Said its ambassador in Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali, Syria, "defending its sovereignty and its territory, has decided to respond by surprise this aggression."It is up to the competent authorities to choose the appropriate answer, and identify means and place," said Ali Lebanese site Sunday, which is close to Hezbollah.Damascus ally Iran was also sharp, with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister Abdollahian Hossein Amir warning that "the Zionist regime attack on the outskirts of Damascus would have dire consequences for the Tel Aviv", according to the  news agency.Russia expressed "deep concern" over the reported attack, saying it would be brazen infringement of the Charter of the United Nations and unacceptable.- Risks of a proxy war -And Ban Ki-moon called on Ban Ki-moon on all parties to "prevent tensions or escalation in the region," Clinton also warned "the risk of civil war and increase the likelihood of a proxy war.""The worst kind of predictions that can happen, both internal and along the borders of Syria, and certainly within the scope is now possible," she said."Made it clear that the Iranians for some time that maintaining Assad in power was one of the highest priorities, and we believe that it has acted on this by sending more staff in, not only to help the lion, but to support and advise the security forces militarily."She also referred to Russia and that caused the Damascus regime despite the efforts of the United States to work for an international solution to the conflict, the United Nations says that cost more than 60,000 people."We have reason to believe that the Russians continued to provide financial and military assistance in the form of equipment for Assad."It is scheduled to meet Biden Lavrov and al-Khatib on Saturday on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich.In Geneva, the agency said children of the United Nations in some people 420,000 - half of them children - in the central region of Homs in urgent need of humanitarian aid.And urged the International Committee of the Red Cross president, Peter Maurer, and all parties to the conflict to help the Syrian access his organization more than the war-torn country with the assistance that is needed most, in an interview with media.She said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Syria conflict has displaced half the country's 500,000 refugees Palestinian.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on the ground, clashes between soldiers and rebels broke out in the south of Damascus on Friday, while the army shelling on the town in the north of Aleppo and Homs and the city also bombed.
The monitoring group said that depends on a network of activists and medics on the ground, killing at least 80 people, 32 of them soldiers, in violence across the country.

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