All of this makes Iran unlikely to support change in Syria
(CBS/AP) BAGHDAD – Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed to a new U.N.-brokered peace plan focusing on containing the most violent areas of the country, then expanding to the entire nation, international envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday. At a news conference in Iran, Annan said the plan still must be presented to the opposition. But he said Assad suggested trying to calm specific areas a day earlier during talks in the Syrian capital aimed at ending the violence, which activists say has killed more than 17,000 people since March 2011. “(Assad) made a suggestion of building an approach from the ground up in some of the districts where we have extreme violence to try and contain the violence in those districts and, step by step, build up and end the violence across the country,” Annan told reporters in Iran, his first step on a tour of Syria’s staunchest allies. Annan: Iran must be “part of the solution” to Syria crisisFor Syria rebels, Assad draws line in the sandKofi Annan holds talks with Syria’s Assad More in After the Arab Spring Annan later visited Iraq and met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss ways to end the 16 months of bloodshed. The conflict in Syria has defied every international attempt to bring peace, including an earlier effort by Annan, and there was no sign that the plan the U.N.-Arab...
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