Reuters, United Nations, 25 Sep 2012 – U.S. President Barack Obama accused Iran on Tuesday of helping to keep a dicatorship in power in Syria and said it was time to isolate those who made hatred of the United States ، Israel or the West their central political principle.
’Just as it restricts the rights of its own people ، the Iranian government props up a dictator in Damascus and supports terrorist groups abroad ، ’ Obama told the U.N. General Assembly in a reference to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
’We again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop ، and a new dawn can begin.’
(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; editing by David Brunnstrom)