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.”
