Iran Today: Revolutionary Guards Change Rouhani’s “Softer” Message on Syria

 

A curious incident this morning in the Iranian press highlights a possible division within the regime over its line on Syria, notably the chemical weapons attack on Wednesday.

On Saturday, President Rouhani used an interview to condemn the attack, noting that Iran had suffered from such assaults during its war with Iraq in the 1980s, and called on the international community “to use all its power to prevent the use of such weapons in all places”.

However, Rouhani refrained from blaming Syrian insurgents for the deaths of at least 1,360 people.

This was not sufficient for Fars News, the outlet of the Revolutionary Guards, which headlined, “Iranian President Strongly Condemns Terrorists’ Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria“.

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