Agence France Presse, SAINT PETERSBURG – The United States said Sunday that a Group of Eight statement on the Middle East crisis implicitly targets Syria and Iran as backers of extremists who attack Israel, even though it does not name them.
A G8 statement on the Middle East crisis warned that "extremist elements and those that support them cannot be allowed to plunge the Middle East into chaos and provoke a wider conflict."
"’Those that support them’ are clearly understood to be Syria and Iran, who have long been backers and funders of both Hezbollah and Hamas," the US State Department’s number three, Nicholas Burns, told reporters on a conference call.
