Reuters, 03/11 18:42 CET
By Jack Stubbs and Polina Devitt
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia does
not see keeping Bashar al-Assad in power as a matter of principle, the
Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday in comments that suggested a
divergence of opinion with Iran, the Syrian president’s other main
international backer.
Fuelling speculation of Russian-Iranian differences over
Assad, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps suggested on Monday
that Tehran may be more committed to him than Moscow was.
While Russia and Iran have been Assad’s foremost foreign
supporters during Syria’s four-year-old war, the United States, its Gulf
allies and Turkey have insisted the president must step down as part of
any eventual peace deal.Talks in Vienna on Friday among the main
foreign players involved in diplomatic efforts on Syria failed to reach
agreement on Assad.
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