The United States urges Russia to use its influence on Damascus and Tehran to withdraw Iranian troops from the country, U.S. Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey said.
"We do urge the Russians to use whatever influence they have with the Syrian government and with the Iranians … to effect the removal of all Iranian commanded forces from the entirety of Syria as part of a solution that would have all foreign forces other than the Russians leave and return to 2011," the State Department envoy said in an interview with RIA Novosti and the Kommersant newspaper..
Jeffrey added that Washington had talked to Russia about it but what will that require is another question.
