Syria Mocks US Cave on Russian Proposal: We 'Pulled the Rug From Under the Feet of American Aggression'

On Tuesday, the Syrian foreign minister mocked the Obama administration’s acceptance of Russia’s proposal on Monday to help handle a Syrian turnover of chemical weapons. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said, “Yesterday we held a round of very fruitful negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and he put forward an initiative regarding chemical weapons. Already in the evening we accepted Russia’s initiative.” He added that Syria had accepted the Russian proposal to “pull the rug from under the feet of American aggression.”