US and Russia Disagree Over Whether Iran Should Join Syria Peace Talks

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Reason Staff | 1.13.2014 3:20 PM

PARIS — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Monday in Paris to plan for Syrian peace talks later this month. The men could not agree on inviting Iran to join those talks.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has no bigger ally than Iran. So his government says it expects Iran will be invited to planned peace talks in Geneva "just like any other state."

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US and Russia Disagree Over Whether Iran Should Join Syria Peace Talks

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