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		</div><p>Syria has denied White House allegations that it may be preparing a new chemical attack, insisting again that it has never used such arms. Ali Haidar, the minister for national reconciliation, told The Associated Press today that the White House statement foreshadowed a &#8220;diplomatic battle&#8221; that would be waged against Syria in the halls of the UN.</p>
<p>The White House issued a stern warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday night, saying it had &#8220;potential&#8221; evidence that Syria was preparing for another chemical weapons attack. In an ominous statement issued with no supporting evidence or further explanation, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the US had &#8220;identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said the activities were similar to preparations taken before an April 2017 attack that killed dozens of men, women and children, and warned that if &#8220;Mr Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price&#8221;. Several State Department officials typically involved in co-ordinating such announcements said they were caught completely off guard by the warning, which did not appear to have been discussed in advance with other national security agencies.</p>
<p>Typically, the State Department, the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies would all be consulted before the White House issued a declaration sure to ricochet across foreign capitals. A non-governmental source with close ties to the White House said the administration had received intelligence that the Syrians were mixing precursor chemicals for a possible sarin gas attack in either the east or south of the country, where government troops and their proxies have faced recent setbacks.</p>
<p>In Moscow on Tuesday, a senior Russian lawmaker dismissed the warning as &#8220;provocation&#8221;.<br />
Mr Assad had denied responsibility for the April 4 attack in the rebel-held Idlib province that killed dozens of people, and Russia, his key backer, sided with him. Days later, US President Donald Trump launched a retaliatory cruise missile strike on a Syrian government-controlled air base.</p>
<p>Frants Klintsevich, first deputy chairman of the defence and security committee in the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, accused the United States of &#8220;preparing a new attack on the positions of Syrian forces&#8221;. In comments to state-owned RIA Novosti, he added: &#8220;Preparations for a new cynical and unprecedented provocation are under way.&#8221;</p>
<p>The US strike was the first direct American assault on the Syrian government and Mr Trump&#8217;s most dramatic military order since becoming president months before. He said at the time that the Khan Sheikhoun attack crossed &#8220;many, many lines&#8221;, and called on &#8220;all civilised nations&#8221; to join the US in seeking an end to the carnage in Syria. Syria maintained it had not used chemical weapons and blamed opposition fighters for stockpiling the chemicals.</p>
<p>Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry said the toxic agents were released when a Syrian air strike hit a rebel chemical weapons arsenal and munitions factory. Russia is a close ally of Mr Assad. Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, followed up Mr Spicer&#8217;s statement with a Twitter warning: &#8220;Any further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also on Russia &#038; Iran who support him killing his own people.&#8221;</p>
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