Syria says US intervention would be "no picnic"
Iran warns of severe consequences
Syria suggests entrees testament not be granted to chemical aggression site (Adds tanks shown agitating towards aggression site, Russia, U.S. senator)
Syria agreed to let the United Nations inspect the area of a suspected chemical weapons attack from Monday but a U.S. clerk said any such submissiveness would be "too late to be credible" and there was little doubt the rule was to blame.
Foreign powers have been searching for a feedback since many hundreds of clan were killed by poisonous benzine on Wednesday in the suburbs of Damascus in what appears to have been the world's worst chemical weapons attack in 25 years.
The United Nations said Damascus had agreed to a ceasefire while a U.N. team of experts are at the site for inspections which will begin on Monday. Syria confirmed it had agreed to allow the inspections.
But there were increasing signs that the United States and its allies were considering conveying action, a year after President Barack Obama said the utility of chemical weapons was a "red line" that would prompt serious consequences.
A senior U.S. delegate said there was very little doubt that the Syrian government had used a chemical gun against civilians on Wednesday and that Washington was still weighing how to respond.
"At this juncture, any belated solution by the regime to grant access to the U.N. crew would be considered too late to be credible, including because the will available has been significantly corrupted as a aftereffect of the regime's persistent shelling and other international actions over the vitality five days," the cleric said.
Syria's dope official said any U.S. military proceeding would "create a globe of fire that evidence inflame the Middle East".
He said Damascus had evidence chemical ammunition were used by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad, not by his government. Western nation say they believe the rebels do not have access to poison gas.
Western drainpipe have been phoning each other in recent age and issuing declarations promising some stripes of response.
"This crime must not be swept under the carpet," British Prime Minister David Cameron's office said after a telephone tattoo with French President Francois Hollande about the crisis on Sunday morning.
"France is determined that this performance does not go unpunished," Hollande's chamber said.
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A band of U.N. chemical munitions inspectors had already arrived in Syria three age before Wednesday's incident to investigate other earlier reports of chemical munitions use.
Since Wednesday, the 20-strong panels has been waiting in a Damascus luxury hotel a few miles from the lands of what appears to have been the world's worst chemical weapons offensive since Saddam Hussein's forces gassed thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988.
State television showed footage of tanks stirring on Sunday into what it said was the eastern Damascus suburb of Jobar, one of the districts where the crowd poisoning occurred.
Opposition activists in Damascus said the army was using surface-to-surface missiles and artillery in the area.
Obama met his vertex military and national security advisers on Saturday to debate options. U.S. naval forces have been repositioned in the Mediterranean to give Obama the option of an armed strike.
"Based on the reported mathematics of victims, reported indication of those who were killed or injured, witness accounts and other reality gathered by open sources, the U.S. intelligence community, and international partners, there is very little misgiving at this point that a chemical weapon was used by the Syrian regime against civilians in this incident," the U.S. pastor said.
Assad's closest ally Iran, repeating Obama's own previous rhetoric, said the United States should not cross a "red line" by attacking Syria.
"America knows the bound of the red files of the Syrian front and any connection of Syria's red queue evidence have severe results for the White House," said Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of pole of Iran's military, Fars news bureau reported.
Russia, Assad's U.N. Security Council ally which has suggested rebels may have been behind the chemical attack, welcomed the decision to allow the U.N. exam and said it would be a "tragic mistake" to omission to deduction over who was responsible.
In past incidents, the United States, Britain and France said they obtained their own confirmation that Assad used small sum of chemical arms. If the U.N. panels obtains independent evidence, it could be easier to build an international diplomatic argument for intervention. Former munitions detective opinion every hour matters.
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Two and a half days since the start of a battle that has already killed more than 100,000 people, the United States and its allies have yet to income direct action, despite long ago saying Assad must be removed from power.
After concluding that Assad's forces had already used a small numbering of nerve gas, Obama authorised generation U.S. munitions to Syrian rebels in June. But those shipments were delayed due to fears radical Sunni Islamist groups in the protest could addition further lands in Syria and become a danger to the West.
Stark video footage from Wednesday's apparent attack - which showed mass of people stacked up in medical clinics - has stoked demands abroad for a robust, U.S.-led response.
But the Obama administration is reluctant to be drawn center into another war in the Muslim ore after pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq and preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan.
Senator Jack Reed from Obama's Democratic Party said any critique had to have international military food and Washington could not get into a "general military operation".
About 60 percent of Americans surveyed in a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Saturday said the United Nations should not intervene, while just 9 percent theory Obama should act.
The Syrian opposition says between 500 and well over 1,000 civilians were killed this week by gas in munitions fired by pro-government forces. The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said three hospitals near Damascus had reported 355 destruction in the hiatus of three hours out of closely 3,600 admissions with tendon gas-type symptoms.
The head of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front rebel escape has pledged to objective communities from Assad's Alawite party with rockets in revenge, according to an audio recording published on YouTube.
"For every chemical rocket that had fallen on our people in Damascus, one of their villages will, by the evidence of God, pay for it," Abu Mohammad al-Golani said in the recording.
Syrian nation crate said "terrorists" had assassinated Dr. Anas Abdul Razak, the governor of Hama, in a car bomb. The Nusra Front is active in the area but it was not clear if it was responsible. (Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Mahmoud Habboush in Dubai Yeganeh Torbati in Dubai.
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