Iran Must Stop Using Syria to Threaten Regional Neighbors: US Envoy

• 05.07.2019, 20:04
•  Region,  Near East,  World

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Speaking to Al Arabiya English from Jordan’s Dead Sea region, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary and Special Envoy for Syria Joel Rayburn said there was a consensus between Washington, the European Union and the Arab world on pressuring Iran to stop using Syria as a platform to threaten regional neighbors.

“The Iranian regime is absolutely isolated on this question, that idea that the Iranian regime would use Syria in order to establish power projection platforms that it can use to threaten Syria’s neighbors in an unprecedentedly destabilizing way,” Rayburn said.

“This is something the entire international community rejects. It is something that the US, the European Union countries and the Arab world are all in agreement about using the tool at our disposals, such as economic and political pressure tools and political isolation to try to push back on,” he added.