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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

WW3 UPDATE - FROM SYRIA TO IRAN (CrossTalk)

Published on Sep 17, 2013

What is at stake for Tehran as Washington deals with Syria? Is Obama genuinely interested in diplomacy? And could the dreadful conflict in Syria be used as a means to take on Iran? CrossTalking with Mohammad Marandi and Faheem Younus.

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Iran-Syria-Lebanon alliance greater danger to Israel than al-Qaeda: Envoy

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Stated Michael Oren says the alliance of Iran, Syria and Lebanon poses the greatest danger to Tel Aviv, adding that Israel prefers al-Qaeda-affiliated operatives to Iranian-backed groups.

"The initial message about the Syria issue was that we always wanted [President] Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren't backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran," the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post quoted Oren as saying.
Oren said Israel was willing to see the overthrow of Assad government before the outbreak of its crisis in March 2011.
He added that the removal of Assad from power would “weaken the alliance” between Iran and the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah.

"The greatest danger to Israel is by the strategic arc that extends from Tehran, to Damascus to Beirut. And we saw the Assad regime as the keystone in that arc,” Oren said.

This is the reason that Israel has wanted Assad to go, either before or after the outbreak of the unrest in Syria, Oren said.
Israel’s hostility toward Lebanon has increased after Hezbollah defeated Tel Aviv in two wars in 2000 and 2006.
Tel Aviv launched two wars on Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. About 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, were killed in the 33-Day War of 2006.
On both occasions, however, Hezbollah fighters defeated the Israeli forces and Tel Aviv was forced to retreat without achieving any of its objectives.
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Obama: Syria Deal Could Influence Iran Nuclear Talks

In this image from video pre-taped at the White House in Washington Friday, September 13, 2013, for Sunday morning's ABC program "This Week" President Barack Obama answers questions about pressing national and international issues.

VOA News

September 15, 2013

U.S. President Barack Obama says he and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have exchanged letters about the situation in Syria, and that diplomacy backed by military threat is a model for negotiating with Tehran over its nuclear ambitions.
In a U.S. television interview broadcast Sunday, Obama said Iran should avoid thinking the United States would not launch a military strike in response to Tehran's nuclear program just because it has not attacked Syria.
He said Iranian leaders understand the U.S. concern about a potential nuclear-armed Iran "is a far larger issue" for the United States than Syria's chemical weapons.
Obama told ABC News "the threat against ... Israel that a nuclear Iran poses is much closer to our core interests," adding that "a nuclear arms race in the region" would be "profoundly destabilizing."
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking Sunday in Jerusalem, said the recent U.S.-Russian agreement on Syria's chemical weapons also serves as a "marker" for the international community as it deals with Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.
"The threat of force is real and the Assad regime and all those taking part need to understand that President Obama and the United States are committed to achieve this goal. We cannot have hollow words in the conduct of international affairs because that affects all other issues, whether Iran or North Korea or any other," said Kerry.

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