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Their use of chemical weapons. >> because of that, white house officials are quick to make the distinction between assad and iranian leaders working with the u.s. and other world powers to limit their nuclear program. >> do syria and iran qualify as partners in the region? >> syria certainly not and we consider the moderate opposition and the group that we will deal with diplomatically there. when it comes to irani think i've described what we have done already which is to have some discussions on the sidelines of other meetings and they're wholly separate and apart from the conversations that...

Essentially a shia government in damascus and syria. it's a regime, but it's considered a herretical regime so they have the same enemy. the iranian, syrian and iraqi government all see isis as their enemy. we are the ones that come in with the complication. we sort of like the the iraqi government because it's sort of democratic and we don't like the syrian government because it's a dictatorship, and we don't like the iranians because they -- you know. our position is incoherent and i don't mean it about the obama administration. i mean it about u.s. policy and we are trying to overlay this i...

Government formation is so urgent so that the leaders of iraq can begin to make decisions necessary to protect iraq without outside forces moving to fill a vacuum. >> reporter: but syria and its embattled leader bashar al assad along with iran might have other plans. they have competing interests in iraq and the sects vying for power there. >> it's a kind of strange bedfellows that would probably knife each other under the covers. the fact is that iran wants influence in iraq. it wants effectively as much control over the shiite population as possible. >> the assad group has actually been usin...