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Iran seeks observer role

Clashes continue as UN deplores 'gross’ rights abuses

AFP, Damascus
Syrian troops shelled several districts in Aleppo and clashed with rebels yesterday, as Damascus ally Iran proposed an observer role for his country alongside Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia and a peaceful solution to the conflict.
Iran’s proposal emerged in a meeting in Cairo on Monday of the Syria "contact group" to which it Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey belong, Tehran's official news agency IRNAand broadcaster IRIB said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi appealed for "a simultaneous halt in clashes and violence by the sides in Syria, insisted on a peaceful solution without foreign intervention and a halt to financial, military and training support for the Syrian opposition," IRNAreported, without giving a source.
He told his Egyptian and Turkish counterparts that observers from their countries, and from Saudi Arabia, could "monitor the process of stopping the violence in Syria," IRNAadded.
The group is to meet again in New
York later this month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Egypt's state news agency reported.
In Aleppo, clashes erupted in Bustan al-Qasr in the southwest and in nearby Izaa as both districts were shelled, residents in Syria's second city said, also reporting fighting further south in Sukari.
Overnight, shelling killed two civilians in the rebel-held Sakhur neighbourhood in the northeast, while nearby Hanano
was also bombed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syrian forces said they had secured the flashpoint Midan district on Monday after a week of fighting, although an AFP correspondent said some parts were still unsafe for residents to return.
In Damascus, at least four soldiers and one rebel were killed, as the army tried to push into the southern districts of Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, Qadam and
Assali, and three civilians were killed by shelling, the Observatory said.
Troops also bombed areas in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, where 10 civilians were killed, the northwestern province of Idlib and the central province of Homs, where a rebel was killed in fighting, the monitoradded.
The Britain-based group says more than 27,000 people have been killed since the uprising erupted in March 2Oll.TheUnited Nations puts the toll at more than20,000.
As the killing continues, the head of a UN commission investigating rights abuses in Syria said they had soared dramatically in recent weeks and that the UN Security Council should take "appropriate action" against war criminals.
"Gross violations of human rights have grown in number, in pace and in scale," Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said on Monday, adding that Assad's regime and rebels, to a lesser extent, had committed war crimes.