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Iran admitted it has troops in Syria
Sunday, September 16, 2012 23:10
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By: AFP
DAMASCUS – Fighting raged in Syria’s two biggest cities on Sunday as UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi ended his first visit to the country on a peace mission a rebel commander said was doomed to fail.
Iran admitted for the first time it has elite forces present in Syria and neighbouring Lebanon, where Pope Benedict XVI added his voice to calls for an end to the bloodletting, urging Arab states to propose workable solutions. As Brahimi departed after a four-day visit to the war-ravaged country, a rebel Free Syrian Army commander who had an Internet conference call with the envoy on Sunday said his mission would fail.
