Washington: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has Iran of playing an increasingly prominent role in directing the violence in Syria.
Clinton told reports on Thursday that Iran’s involvement was heightening the danger of a larger regional conflict that draws in Israel or other neighbours.
“I’ve done what was possible to do,” she said on the eve of her last day as secretary of state.
But she painted a harrowing picture of a war that could still get worse.
“The worst kind of predictions about what could happen internally and spilling over the borders of Syria are certainly within the realm of the possible now,” she said.
The conflict “is distressing on all fronts,” Clinton told a roundtable of journalists on Thursday, a day before John Kerry is sworn in as her successor. She pointed the finger primarily at Iran, accusing it of dispatching more personnel and better military materiel to President Bashar Assad’s regime to help him defeat rebel forces. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, is also playing a bigger role in the conflict.
“The Iranians are all in for Assad, and there is very little room for any kind of dialogue with them,” Associated Press quoted Clinton her as saying.
She spoke after Syria threatened on Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike, and its ally Iran warned ominously that the Jewish state would regret the attack.
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