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alp227

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Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:11 PM Mar 2013

Syria and Iran condemn US for offering support to anti-Assad rebels

Source: The Guardian

Syria and Iran have condemned a move by the US to give non-lethal aid to rebels fighting to topple the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, accusing Washington of double standards.

"I do not understand how the United States can give support to groups that kill the Syrian people," the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem, told a news conference on Saturday in Tehran with Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's foreign minister.

"This is nothing but a double-standard policy … One who seeks a political solution does not punish the Syrian people." The United States said on Thursday it would for the first time give non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels, describing the aid as a way to bolster the rebels' popular support.

The assistance will include medical supplies, food for rebel fighters and $60m to help the civil opposition provide basic services such as security, education and sanitation.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/02/syria-iran-us-assad-rebels

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Syria and Iran condemn US for offering support to anti-Assad rebels (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2013 OP
They'll be as thankful as Osama was for the food and supplies. David__77 Mar 2013 #1
We'll be greeted as liberators christx30 Mar 2013 #2
More moral equivalents of the founding fathers daleo Mar 2013 #3
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