Hague said Iran was still providing support to Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's government, and that if it wanted to attend the talks in Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
it should instead agree to the principles set out at a first set of talks in Geneva in 2012, including a transitional government in Syria.
Iran has not been officially invited to the talks by U.N. Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
"If you want to come, show very clearly that you're going to engage on the same basis as the rest of us," Hague said.
He added that a "signal of support" for a transitional government would be "a very helpful signal to Iran in getting them to Geneva II."
Addressing Britannia's parliament, Hague said there was "no objection in principle to Iran in any quarter, certainly in Western nations, coming."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.N.-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
envoy Lakhdar Brahimi both said earlier Monday that Tehran should be at the so-called Geneva II talks, but U.S. Secretary of State John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
said Iran must first sign up to the Geneva I principles.