Syria rebels suspend talks involvement on Iranian invitation

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Syria’s opposition coalition has suspended its participation in this week’s peace talks in Switzerland after the United Nations asked Iran to join the conference.

The first rebel delegates were due to leave for Switzerland at 10 a.m. local time and had postponed their departure, Badr Jamous, secretary-general of the opposition coalition, said in a phone interview from Istanbul.

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