(Adds details, background) By Parisa Hafezi, Louis Charbonneau and Arshad Mohammed UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The United States informed
Iran in advance of its intention to
strike Islamic State militants in
Syria and
told Tehran that it would **t target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Iranian official
told Reuters. "Iran was concerned about Assad's position and his government being weakened in case of any action against IS (Islamic State) in
Syria and brought this issue up in meetings with Americans," a senior Iranian official said on condition of a**nymity. ...
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