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| ‘Covert, overt’ support for Syria Takfiris, missing factor in Mattis remarks |
| 2017-05-09 |
| [Iran Press TV] The United States must end its "covert and overt" involvement in war on Syria, and stop providing "any kind" of support for Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists, like ISIS and al-Qaeda, if it truly aims to "bring this one to an end," as US Defense Secretary James Mattis claimed, says a political analyst. Former US Senate candidate Mark Dankof made the comment in an interview with Press TV on Monday, while discussing remarks by General Mattis in regard to four de-escalation zones, recently negotiated by Russia, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran to reduce violence in Syria. A deal to set up de-escalation zones was signed by Turkey, Iran and Russia, during the fourth round of the Syria peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana on Thursday and took effect at the stroke of midnight local time on Saturday (2100 GMT on Friday). The US will "look at the proposal and see if it can work," the Pentagon chief told news hounds as he traveled to Copenhagen for talks with US allies, toning down a previous criticism the deal by the US State Department. "General Mattis seems not to notice that the United States’ covert and overt involvement in Syria is a major reason for all of this violence," Dankof said. Since crisis began in Syria in 2011, the US has been implicated in providing direct and indirect support for terrorists, wreaking havoc in Syria and later in its Moslem neighbor, Iraq. |
| Posted by:Fred |