Haley: Russia and Iran to share blame for any chemical attacks by Assad

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. June 27, 2017, 8:44 AM (IDT)

The US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley declared on Twitter that any chemical weapons attack by Bashar -Assad’s Syrian government on his own citizens “will be blamed on Assad but also on Russia and Iran who support him killing his own people.”  Haley’s tweet ended with the words: “Stay tuned for more tomorrow.”  It followed a White House warning that Assad would pay a heavy price if he again resorted to chemical weapons against his own people. The US military believes the preparations are similar to those made before the April 4 chemical weapons attack in Syria, which killed 87 people, including 30 children, following which the Trump administration fired 59 Tomahawk missiles against a Syrian air base.

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