Rapid Fire August 28, 2013: France, UK Back US Strike Against Syria While Germany Stalls, Iran Barks

• As the US is getting ready for a limited strike on Syrian military installations, the non sequitur of the day comes from Iran’s Fars news agency:

“[Parliament Speaker] Larijani said there is no need for Syria to respect the international regulations if they will be ignored by the West and certain regional states in the interest of the Zionist regime, implying that any foreign aggression against Syria would issue the needed permission for a strike on Israel.”