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IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will attend talks on the Syrian civil war beginning in Vienna tomorrow after the US agreed to invite its declared enemy.
The major diplomatic breakthrough came after Washington said that it was ready to engage with Tehran if it would help resolve the protracted conflict.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that US officials had “always recognised that at some point in the discussion, moving toward a political transition, we have to have a conversation and a dialogue with Iran.”
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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
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention
