Wednesday, August 17, 2016

US: Russian bombing raid from Iran ‘unfortunate’

The United States on Tuesday bemoaned Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to launch a bombing raid in Syria, but credited Moscow for having given a brief advance warning.


Russia’s defense ministry earlier said long-range bombers and fighter jets took off from the Hamedan base in western Iran and “conducted a group air strike against targets of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groups” in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor and Idlib.

“It’s unfortunate, but not surprising or unexpected,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.

“Frankly, that only makes more difficult what is already a very contentious and complex and difficult situation, he said.

“And it only pushes us further away from what we’re all... trying to pursue, which is a credible nation-wide cessation of hostilities and a political process in Geneva that leads to a peaceful transition.”...
 alarabiya.net/AFP
17/8/16
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