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Via JPost
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that President Barack Obama had again asked for policy options on Syria but that none have yet been presented to him.
Kerry told reporters Obama was concerned about the deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Syria and also by the fact that peace talks between the opposition and government had not produced a discussion of a transitional government as had been planned.
As a result, Kerry said, “he has asked all of us to think about various options that may or may not exist.”
“The answer to the question: have they been presented? No, they have not. But that evaluation, by necessity, given the circumstances, is taking place at this time,” Kerry said. “And when these options are ripe and when the president calls for it, there will undoubtedly be some discussion about them.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney said in Washington that Obama expected his national security team to constantly re-evaluate policy options on Syria and other issues.
“Secretary Kerry was reiterating what has always been the case, which is that the president is always looking at options on policy matters like Syria,” Carney said. “This is not a one-time thing. It’s not like this is a new review.”
Also on Friday, a car bomb killed at least 18 people a town in southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.The bomb went off near a mosque in the town of al-Yadouda near the border with Jordan, Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Observatory, said by phone.
Car bombs are commonly deployed as a weapon in the three-year old Syrian conflict.