'Chemical attack' in Syria draws international outrage

By artappraiser on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 9:10pm |

@ Al Jazeera, 52 minutes ago

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'Toxic gas attack' in Syria kills at least 58 people @ same, 7 hrs. ago

Children among the dead as opposition says Syrian government or Russian jets bombed town with toxic substance.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/chemical-attack-syria-170404195457304.html

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The Twitter news feed for "Chemical Attack"

https://twitter.com/search?q=chemical+attack&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

has many very blistering attacks on Trump's reaction, along these lines

Trump's statement on Syria's chemical gas attack is 77 words long. 37 words are spent condemning Assad. 40 words are spent condemning Obama.
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 5, 2017

Hey Jared, there's a chemical attack in Syria and a NK missile launch. You're head of diplomatic and military affairs: what's happening?
— Hamilton Electors (@HamiltonElector) April 5, 2017

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 9:17pm

Erdogan to Putin: Syria chemical attack 'unacceptable'

Turkish president says deadly gas attack in Idlib attack was 'inhuman'

Andalou Agency/English, April 4, reporting from Ankara

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CURRENTLY NOT A SINGLE MENTION of this on the English home page of The Islamic Republic News Agency but it does have an awful lot of anti-Saudi agitprop, all in a row, using up much of the page:

Tehran unlike Riyadh seeks stability in the region, says analyst

London, April 4, IRNA - Director of the London-based Abrar Islamic Foundation (Abrar House) think tank Saeed Shahabi said that whilst Tehran seeks to downplay tensions in the region, Riyadh however wages war and conflict in the Middle East.

There can be no solution without Iran in solving regional affairs

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Tehran unlike Riyadh seeks stability in the region, says analyst

London, April 4, IRNA - Director of the London-based Abrar Islamic Foundation (Abrar House) think tank Saeed Shahabi said that whilst Tehran seeks to downplay tensions in the region, Riyadh however wages war and conflict in the Middle East.

'Jonathan Fryer':

There can be no solution without Iran in solving regional affairs

London, April 4, IRNA - A prominent British broadcaster and analyst slammed the destructive role of Saudi Arabia in the region noting that there can be no solution without Iran for solving regional problems.

Yemen crisis escalated by Saudi Arabia: Indian scholar

New Delhi, March 30, IRNA – A prominent Indian expert on international affairs on Thursday said that Yemen conflict was a domestic issue, but was escalated by Saudi Arabia, its allies and the US.

Activist: Saudi gov't has no regard for Law, Yemenis need help

London, Mar 28, IRNA -- Kim Sharif, Yemeni activist based in the UK, slammed Saudi government for committing genocide in Yemen, and urged the international community to defend the right of the Yemeni people.

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 9:39pm

it should also be pointed out that there is this in the top stories at IRNA:

Rouhani strongly condemns bomb explosion in St. Petersburg metro

Tehran, April 4, IRNA - President Hassan Rouhani in a cabled message on Tuesday to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin strongly condemned Monday bomb explosion in Saint Petersburg metro which killed over 14 innocent people.

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 9:42pm

just over a month ago: Russia, China block U.N. sanctions on Syria over chemical weapons attacks

CBS News, Feb 28, 2017 7:24 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS -- Russia and China vetoed new U.N. sanctions on Syria Tuesday and the U.S. ambassador accused both countries of refusing to hold President Bashar Assad’s regime accountable for the use of chemical weapons.

“They put their friends in the Assad regime ahead of our global security,” new American envoy Nikki Haley told the U.N. Security Council after the vote. “They turned away from defenseless men, women and children who died gasping for breath when Assad’s forces dropped their poisonous gas.”

The Trump administration recently joined France and Britain in sponsoring the resolution, and Haley minced no words in denouncing the “outrageous and indefensible choice” that Russia and China made on Tuesday. President Trump had warm words for Russian President Vladimir Putin while campaigning but Haley has now criticized Russia over its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula as well as Syria.

The defeated resolution was drafted following a joint investigation by the United Nations and the international chemical weapons watchdog that determined the Syrian government was behind at least three attacks involving chemical weapons, and that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had also used used them [.....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 11:47pm

Putin stands by Assad as firm evidence of chemical attack mounts

Matthew Weaver, Rowena Mason , Martin Chulov and Emma Graham-Harrison

@ The Guardian, April 6

Calls on Russia to restrain Syrian ally increase after Turkey says postmortems confirm uses of chemical weapons

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 9:35pm

Iran on board, at top of IRNA right now:

Iran-Turkey-Russian convergence over Syria entails positive achievements

Moscow, April 7, IRNA – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennadiy Gatilov said on Thursday that joint efforts made by Moscow, Tehran and Ankara over Syrian talks in Astana, Kazakhstan capital, have brought about positive achievements.....

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 9:45pm

and Turkey's (note included in the talks above) justice minister says they've got tests that chemical weapons were used @ Idlib:

Autopsy 'shows chemical weapons used in Syria attack'

Turkey says autopsies were carried out on three bodies that were brought across the border after Idlib attack.

@ Al Jazeera, 10 hours ago

,,,,,"Autopsies were carried out on three of the bodies after they were brought from Idlib. The results of the autopsy confirms that chemical weapons were used," Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said, quoted by state-run Anadolu news agency.

"This scientific investigation also confirms that Assad used chemical weapons," Bozdag added, without giving further details.....

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 10:14pm

'The dead were wherever you looked': inside Syrian town after gas attack

Exclusive: Kareem Shaheen reports from Khan Sheikhun, where he was the first reporter from western media to reach the site of this week’s devastating atrocity

@ TheGuardian.com, April 6

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 3:24pm

What It’s Like to Survive a Sarin Gas Attack

By KASSEM EID, Op-ed @ NYTimes.com, APRIL 7, 2017

Kassem Eid lives in Berlin, where he is working on a memoir about the Syrian civil war.

Photo caption: Kassem Eid, outside the United Nations in New York in 2014. Mr. Eid, from Syria, was a victim of a government gas attack and has become an outspoken opponent of the Assad regime

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 4:40pm

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