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’Tough time ahead for Lebanon & Syia’

Britain sees no US war over Iran's nukes

AFP, REUTERS, Beirut/London
The re-election of US President George W. Bush signals more difficult times ahead for Syria and Lebanon's pro-Syrian regime in the face of mounting US and UN pressure, lawmakers and the press warned yesterday.
"To the shelters, it’s Bush," screamed the front page editorial of Lebanon's leftwing As-Safir newspaper, raising fears of possible military intervention by the United States.
The leading An-Nahar newspaper said Bush's re-election and the victory of the Republicans in Congress will encourage him to "pursue the same foreign policies that he led in the last four years, particularly concerning the war on terrorism and Iraq."
Beirut and its political masters in Damascus have been under pressure from the Bush administration, which is leading an international campaign to end Syria's military presence in Lebanon and its interference in the domestic affairs of its neighbor.
Relations between the United States and Syria, which has about 15,000 troops on Lebanese soil, have long been strained. Washington in May slapped economic sanctions on Damascus, claiming it was supporting terrorism and seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction, charges denied by Syria.
Syrian government daily Tishrin said that "if the US does not revise the bad ideas of the new conservatives — totally biased to Israel and hostile toward the Arabs — the American policy will continue to turn in a vicious circle" in the Middle East.
"The new US administration should admit that its policy of the stick and military force was unnecessary" in the region, itsaid.
The paper rather called on the new Bush Administration to "be interested in the Arab-Israeli peace process, if it wants its policy to succeed" in the Middle East.
Lebanese opposition MP Fares Sahed said Bush's re-election will "accelerate the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution
1559," which laid out the international community's demands on Damascus.
"Bush’s return means a speeding up of the process of drawing a mechanism for the implementation of this Resolution at the Security Council," said Sahed.
"And therefore he would pursue his policy of re-organising a new Middle East from a US security point of view, which will increase the pressure on Lebanon and Syria to implement Resolution 1559."
Reuters adds: Britain, Washington's main ally in Iraq, ruled out yesterday that the United States was preparing to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program with military force.
"The prospect of it happening is inconceivable," British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told BBC radio. "I don't see any circumstances in which military action would be justified against Iran, full stop."
Straw's predecessor, Robin Cook, said on Wednesday that those in the Bush administration who pressed for invasion of Iraq were now lobbying for action against Iran.