By Ben Ariel, 9/13/2014

Secretary of State says it would be inappropriate for Iran to attend a meeting in Paris on how to defeat the Islamic State group.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it would be inappropriate for Iran to attend an upcoming meeting in Paris on how to defeat the Islamic State group, The Associated Press (AP) reported.

Speaking to reporters in the Turkish capital, Kerry said he has not been formally asked about whether Iran should participate in the meeting of diplomats set for Monday.

However, he added, Iran should not be there, given its support for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in his three-year war against rebels that are trying to oust him from power.

Kerry is in Ankara to press Turkey to join an international coalition against the Islamic State, a day after he received the backing of 10 Arab countries for a "coordinated military campaign" against Islamic State fighters.

Those 10 countries are Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and six Gulf states, including rich rivals Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Kerry held talks with the Arab countries in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, but Iran was excluded from the, as was Syria.

Kerry met the Arab leaders to drum up support a day after President Barack Obama announced his plans to strike fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Last week, it was reported that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei had authorized his army to coordinate joint military operations with the United States against IS in Iraq.

The State Department later clarified it has "no plans" for any military coordination with Iran in the fight against Islamic State.

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Anyone else confused as to where we should bomb? I mean last year we wanted to help the rebels and bomb Assad. OK but then a power struggle occurred among the rebels and some of them morphed into this new group ISIS. And now we want to bomb the rebels called ISIS instead. Assad for the moment doesn't look so bad. But Assad will not give us permission to bomb ISIS within the Syrian border. ........

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US Secretary of State meets Al-Sisi to gain support for a broad coalition of countries to fight IS.
John Kerry on Saturday held talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, as well as meeting the head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby.

"Egypt is on the frontline of the fight against terrorism, particularly when it comes to fighting extremist groups in Sinai," Kerry told a Cairo news conference alongside Shoukry, referring to the Sinai Peninsula, where terrorist groups battling Egyptian forces have expressed support for the Islamist "Islamic State" (IS) organization, which has seized large areas of northern Iraq and Syria.

Shoukry said regional terror groups in Egypt had to be dealt with and that the international community was an international responsibility. "Ultimately this extremist ideology is shared by all terrorist groups,�h he elaborated. �gWe detect ties of cooperation between them and see a danger as it crosses borders."

Kerry visited Egypt to gain support for a broad coalition of countries to fight IS, reported Deutsche Welle. He had already secured the backing of 10 Arab governments, including Egypt, alongside Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and six Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. "As an intellectual and cultural capital in the Muslim world, Egypt has a critical role to play in publicly denouncing the ideology that ISIL disseminates," Kerry said, referring to the group by its former name, an acronym for "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant."

Kerry addressed human rights issues with President al-Sisi, Shoukry and others, in a "frank discussion about concerns that have been expressed."�@
However, "the United States doesn't ever trade its concern for human rights for any other objectives," the US secretary of state told reporters on Saturday.
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Tell me how he says proudly with a clear conscience that Egypt is on the frontline combatting terrorism? Obama and Kerry supported the Muslim Brotherhood which the Egyptian military removed from power, after it was clear they did not want to share power but create the ways of Islamic rule to Egypt.