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Syria's Assad Meets With Iran's Zarif as Damascus Shelled
The Associated Press Aug 12, 2015 8:51 PM

Iran's foreign minister also meets Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in Lebanon, discusses resolution for Syria's civil war.

Stepped-up rebel shelling and government airstrikes came just a few hours before Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Damascus, where he discussed a four-point proposal Iran wants to offer to the United Nations as a way out of Syria's grinding conflict.

That plan, according to a Lebanese politician familiar with the proposal, includes a cease-fire and a power-sharing government that would keep Assad in the picture, at least for now, pending internationally supervised elections.
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Offenbar versuchen die Iraner eine diplomatische Lösung für Syrien zu vermitteln.