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U.N. pushes Syrian regime to allow for chemical attack probe

NCRI – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday renewed his push for Syria to allow U.N. inspectors immediate access to investigate the deadly chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus.

“I can think of no good reason why any party, either government or opposition forces – would decline this opportunity to get to the truth of the matter,” the U.N. chief told a diplomatic forum in Seoul.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad has offered no public response to U.N. calls for its team to inspect the site of the attack, which opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said killed from 500 to well over 1,000 people.

They said more bodies were being found in the wake of Wednesday’s mysterious pre-dawn killer fumes.

Reuters news agency reported on Friday that a U.S. official familiar with initial intelligence assessments said the attack appeared to be the work of the Assad government.
It was “the regime acting as a regime”, the official said.

While Wednesday’s chemical attack and mass murder of the Syrian people has outraged the international community, the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad defends Assad and blames the opposition for the chemical attack.

Hassan Rouhani’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad-javad Zarif said: “If use of chemical weapons is indeed true, undoubtedly it has been used by terrorist and Takfiri groups since their interests lie in escalating and internationalizing the Syrian crisis.” (ISNA state news agency – August 21)

Mrs Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance condemned the massacre of innocent people of Damascus and called for urgent action by the international community.

She said: “It is the religious fascism ruling Iran that through dispatching of herds of revolutionary guards, all types of weapons, and spending dozens of billions of dollars of the wealth of the deprived Iranian people, is keeping the criminal regime in Syria in power.”

Ahmed al-Jerba, leader of Syrian opposition coalition, told al-Hayat daily on August 18: “The real rulers of Syria are commanders of the revolutionary guards. Revolutionary guards are fighting us in the streets of Damascus and Ghassem Suleimani commands the military operations. Iraqi militias are dispatched to fight in Syria by Iran’s orders. Assad’s army has been defeated. Today, we are facing an army commanded by the Iranian regime that has imposed on us an all out war with advanced weapons.”