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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The start of a new round of peace talks on the Syrian war has been pushed back by two days so that U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura can travel to Damascus and Tehran to sound out their position on a political transition, the envoy said on Thursday. De Mistura told a news conference he wanted to verify the position of international and regional parties to the conflict to ensure there was a critical mass about "what could be a framework of a political transition". "The next round of the talks needs to be quite concrete in the direction of a political process leading to a real beginning of a political transition," he said.More...