Syrian Invitation to Iran Prompts Rebels to Suspend Talks
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Syria’s opposition suspended its pledge to attend this week’s peace talks in Switzerland after the United Nations invited Iran, jeopardizing the latest attempt to end a war that’s killed more than 100,000 people.
The Syrian National Coalition, the main opposition political group, will attend only if the invitation to Iran is withdrawn, or if Iran accepts an international plan adopted in 2012 that calls for a transitional government, Badr Jamous, the coalition’s secretary-general, said in a phone interview from Istanbul.