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US ups rhetoric on Iran, Syria
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Report says US considers supporting Assad opposition in Syria; Bush urges Iranians to "do better than Ahmadinejad"
WASHINGTOn The United States said yesterday it supported Syrian opposition groups rivaling Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, but said such support was overt, and not a secret bid to undermine his government.
New scrutiny of tense US-Syria relations came after Time magazine ran an exclusive report on its website, based on a classified document it said showed the Bush administration was mulling an effort to fund opposition to Assad.
It said some critics charge such an initiative would amount to a covert action to influence a foreign government, and so leave the White House legally bound to inform Congress.
US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the United States supported Syrian civil society groups, in line with its global bid to foster democracy.
“Any activities the State Department are involved in are overt, they’re funded through our Middle East initiatives, and they’re for all to see,” he said.
Time said one proposal being considered was an election monitoring programme that needs to be concealed. The report said the US effort was particularly targeting legislative elections in Syria due in March.
Besides, US President George W. Bush yesterday rejected new talks on Iraq with Iran or Syria and, in a direct challenge to Tehran, said Iranians “can do better” than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“My message to the Iranian people is: You can do better than to have somebody try to rewrite history. You can do better than
somebody who hasn’t strengthened your economy,” Bush said.
“And you can do better than having
somebody who’s trying to develop a nuclear weapon that the world believes you shouldn’t have. There’s a better way forward,” he said.
“We made perfectly clear to them what it takes to come to the table ... suspension of their enrichment programme,” said Bush. (AFP) |
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