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America To Sabotage Peace Talks On Syria, Claims Washington Official

A former US Senate foreign policy analyst in Washington has accused the U.S. of preparing to deliberately sabotage peace talks with Syria in order to justify an upcoming invasion.  In an interview with Iranian state media, James Jatras discussed remarks made by US Vice President Joe Biden, who announced that America was ready for military intervention in Syria if peace talks failed. Presstv.com reports: Press TV: What is your take on what the US vice president has said basically when he is talking about getting involved militarily now in Syria? Jatras: What the vice president has said is very disturbing though unfortunately not very surprising. It shows that the Obama administration talks Daesh, Daesh, Daesh but what they are really still focused on is regime change. ‘Assad must go’, they may have muted that rhetorically for the time being but it is clear that Washington along with Ankara and Riyadh are prepared to sabotage any peace negotiations unless they result in regime change. When he talks about military intervention, they may pretend they were talking about Daesh but really what we are talking about is against the legitimate Syrian government and it is also disturbing that the Republican leadership in Congress appears ready to pass a very broad, [...]