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TALKS on a resolution of the Syrian civil war got under way in Vienna yesterday, with Iranian representatives attending for the first time.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attended the negotiations after the United States agreed to extend an invitation to the key regional player.
But Syria itself remained excluded from the discussion, in which rebel-backers the US, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are demanding that President Bashar al-Assad’s government must be overthrown before there can be peace.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
The US’s bid for regime change in the Islamic Republic has become more urgent as it seeks to encircle and contain a resurgent China, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
