World press review on Kerry's critique of Russia and Iran (March 4, 2013)

Making a case for providing increased support to the Syrian

opposition, Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Russia and Iran

on Monday for continuing to ship arms to President Bashar al-Assad of

Syria. Mr. Kerry has sought to enlist Russia’s cooperation for a

political solution to the war in Syria and met last week with Foreign

Minister Sergey V. Lavrov.

“Believe me, the bad actors, regrettably, have no shortage of their

ability to get arms — from Iran, from Hezbollah, from Russia,

unfortunately,” the New York Times cites Kerry speaking  in a joint

news conference with the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud

al-Faisal.

“There is no guarantee that one weapon or another might not, at some

point in time, flow into the wrong hands,” he said, quoted by the New

York Times. “But I will tell you this: there is a very clear ability

now in the Syrian opposition to make certain that what goes to the

moderate, legitimate opposition is in fact getting to them, and the

indication is that they are increasing their pressure as a result of

that.”