US DIPLOMACY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS ON SYRIA & UKRAINE

US DIPLOMACY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS ON SYRIA & UKRAINE. 

US/UN FEARS Assad Win in Free Syrian Election? US Terrified Of His Popularity

By Daniel McAdams | Monday, February 17, 2014 [Here only extracts]

http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/02/17/usun-fears-assad-win-in-free-syrian-election/

Last week the leaked conversation between US diplomats plotting the overthrow of Ukraine’s government was one such dramatic moment.

Another came yesterday, in an interview with Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Roknabadi, told the respected Lebanese Daily Star newspaper that the Iranian government had been under pressure to convince Syrian president Bashar al-Assad not to run again for president. As Syria’s only regional ally, Iran presumably has a good deal of influence with the Assad government.

Ambassador Roknabadi:
Feltman, during a visit to Iran last summer, asked officials to convince Assad not to run in the elections. The Iranian officials asked him: ‘What’s the problem if he runs,’ to which Feltman responded: ‘If he runs, he will win the elections.’

Feltman is not just any UN bureaucrat. In the revolving door between the UN and US government, he previously served as US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from August 2009 to June 2012 and as United States Ambassador to Lebanon from July 2004 to January 2008. Before that he served in post-”liberation” Iraq.

More recently, Feltman was an important cast member in the above-mentioned “Ukraine-gate” phone call between Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. In the Ukraine drama, former State Department colleagues agreed that Feltman could be trusted to appoint a UN official to “glue” together the deal they were cooking up.

If Ambassador Roknabadi is accurate in his account, this confirms much about the US government’s cynical regime-change ploy in Syria.

To Secretary Kerry. Assad must be kept out of the picture, because the US is terrified of his popularity in Syria.

By Daniel McAdams
Copyright The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity

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