Iran Pushes Election Plan to End Syrian Civil War
'Six Point Plan' Calls for Immediate Ceasefire, End to Foreign Arms Flow
The Iranian government has unveiled its “six point plan” during the opening of a new conference on the Syrian Civil War, urging both sides to back a plan to end fighting and hold snap presidential elections.
The plan calls on both sides to halt fighting, and for the international community to throw its weight behind the deal, while ending arms shipments to all combatants inside Syria for the duration of talks.
The plan calls on the Assad government to immediately release all political prisoners as part of the deal, and for both sides and the international community to join together to begin reconstruction of cities damaged in the war.
The new plan is likely to be rejected out of hand by the US, which has insisted no plan involving Iran could ever be acceptable. Calls for talks seem to have renewed interest, however, with Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa saying he believes the fight is stalemated and talks are the only way forward.
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mojo
December 16th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
There is no any other way…, we said that from the beginning… " let's make Syria the other democracy" in Middle East…, that was in response to west implying that " Israel is the only democracy in the regions" .., although facts shown that is not the case, but "hypothetically" believing the nation and if west is after democracy then the political ground in Syria is prepared for such moment. Otherwise no matter if is Obama or Clinton or the Neo fascism in Europe they all talking nothing but gibberish about democracy…., stop the Islamization of the world.., Islam nor any other religious is about nor will be a democracy.
John Ellis
December 17th, 2012 at 3:31 am
President Assad and the 25% most intelligent and wealthy now rule Syria. So, the game plan of our Empire is to put the intelligent middle-class in power, which would cause this class war to go on for another 10 or 20 years until the 25% most intelligent
ruling class regained their rightful place as the head of government.
For not until the people get moral can their government stop being criminal, and until then pure insanity is it to have the tail wag the head in government.
RevJune
December 17th, 2012 at 9:22 am
So, Iran backs elections, while the US favors arming and arbitrarily recognizing a bunch of Al-Qaida terrorists as the next government. We can obviously see why Iran is evil. Supporting elections is obviously the act of an evil empire bent on world domination. What a evil notion, letting the Syrian people pick their own leader.