by TheTower.org Staff | 08.19.15

The Associated Press reported yesterday that the United Nations backed condemnations of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria issued by special envoy Staffan de Mistura after Sunday airstrikes on a busy Douma marketplace near Damascus left a reported 96 people dead,.
In a statement Monday, de Mistura condemned the government air raids in the eastern Damascus suburb of Douma, one of the deadliest since Syria’s crisis began in March 2011. He called it “unacceptable under any circumstances.” …
Commenting on the Syrian government’s criticism, a spokeswoman for the U.N. secretary-general Vannina Maestracci told reporters in New York Tuesday: “We stand by the statement he issued yesterday.”
Without mentioning the massacre, Ali Akbar Velyati, a top advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reiterated Iran’s support for the Assad regime yesterday, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.
Interpol issued a “red notice” against Velayati for his involvement in the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Argentina.