UN leader Ban Ki-moon threw Iran out of this week's Syria peace conference after it refused to back calls for a transitional government to end the country's war.

The unprecedented diplomatic action averted a Syrian opposition boycott of the talks which start in the Swiss town of Montreux on Wednesday.

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