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TEHRAN (FNA)- The lack of consensus in the international community for launching a military attack against Syria isolated the Americans, a prominent Iranian legislator said, adding that the US was forced to withdraw from its positions after it was faced with this international opposition. As a result of global condemnation the US did not have ...

The prospect of a US military strike on Syria has dimmed following President Barack Obamas embrace of an international initiative to take control of Syrias chemical-weapons stockpile. The eleventh-hour U-turn on the push for military action has come against a backdrop of intensifying diplomatic pressure from the international community to avoid escalation ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator underlined that Washington's withdrawal from its war plans against Damascus will reinvigorate the Syrian army in its fight against the terrorist Takfiri groups. "The US withdrawal from its war plan against Syria will weaken the terrorists and strengthen the Syrian army and people against the Takfiris," ...

The United States halted its plan to attack Syria as Washington was apprehensive of the resistance movement and the opposition of the world public opinion to such an offensive, an Iranian lawmaker says. In a Saturday interview, Mohammad Esmaili, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Irans Majlis, pointed to myriads of problems ...

Americas friends in the Gulf are a little less pro-West these days. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates were all poised for a United States military strike on Syria after its apparent use of chemical weapons last month. But as the prospect for a military strike seems to be receding, US popularity is going along with it. Both ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's decision to put off a vote by congress on the use of military force against Syria in order to pursue a Russian proposal to place Damascus' chemical-weapons arsenal under international control has evoked both cheers and jeers from across the political spectrum in Washington on Wednesday. While Obama's supporters ...

PM Netanyahu is both foolish and plain wrong to criticize President Obama by stating that Israel can only rely on itself to act on Iran in view of the U.S.'s risk-averse Syria policy. You knew it was coming. After several weeks of prudent and calculated silence; after numerous clarifications that Israel in neither involved nor has a stake in the Syrian ...

A Russian daily has reported the details of a plan by Moscow that calls for Syrias chemical weapons to be placed under international supervision. Russian officials submitted the four-stage plan to the United States on Wednesday. On Thursday, RussiasKommersantdaily published in its report the stages, which start with Syria becoming a member of the ...

Iran, Syria and Russia have effectively defeated the United States, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Meir Rosenne has warned. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Dr. Rosenne explained that U.S. President Barack Obamas decision toback down on interventionin Syria, and to go along with a Russian initiative instead, will have severe repercussions for American ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj. Politics Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reactedto recent Syria developments: We hope America's new position regarding Syria is serious, without deception ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The US president asked Congress to postpone a vote on military action in Syria as diplomacy is pursued to put chemical weapons beyond the government's reach, but called on the military to maintain pressure on the Syrian government. In his speech, Barack Obama has reiterated that it is in the national security interests of the ...