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Leaked UN report blames Iran for supplying Syrian army with weapons

2012-08-30 176 Dailymotion

The United Nations is blaming Iran for supplying the Syrian army with weapons. The UN says it has found evidence Iran been organising illegal shipments.<br /><br />Meanwhile, both Russia and the US acknowledge that they are helping the two sides in Syria's internal conflict as well.<br /><br />The implications of this are profound: not only are the two sides on the ground ignoring the terms of the ceasefire, but it also seems that foreign countries - which on paper signed up to the Annan plan and its spirit of demilitarisation - are, in practice and in different ways, both offering supplies which undermine it.<br /><br />Iran would say that makes criticism of it sound a bit hollow. And it also reinforces the idea that Syria has turned into a proxy conflict between Russia on one side, and the self-titled Friends of Syria on the other.<br /><br />Laurence Lee reports.

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