Iran has warned against "military intervention" in Syria as Bashar al Assad's regime was accused by Western leaders of massacring of 1,300 people with chemical weapons.
Tehran also said there was "proof" the alleged gas attack in Ghouta, an eastern suburb of Damascus, was carried out by rebel forces.
American naval forces are moving closer to Syria and US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said President Barack Obama had asked the Pentagon to prepare military options for Syria.
He declined to give details on specific force movements, but the AP news agency said a fourth warship has been sent to the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Three other destroyers are currently deployed in the Mediterranean - the USS Gravely, USS Barry and USS Ramage.
All four warships are equipped with several dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles which would allow the Pentagon to act rapidly if a military strike was ordered against Syria.
Survivors of the alleged gas attack rest inside a Damascus mosque The move comes as the UN disarmament chief, Angela Kane, arrived in Damascus to press the Syrian government to allow UN inspectors to investigate the site of the alleged chemical attack this week.
Mr Hagen said: "The president has asked the Defence Department for options. Like always, the Defence Department is prepared and has been prepared to provide all options for all contingencies to the president of the US."
He said he expected US intelligence to "swiftly" assess whether the Syrian government did use chemical weapons in two Damascus suburbs.
Dead animals lie in the street in the suburb of Zamalka Mr Obama last year threatened to punish Assad's regime if it resorted to using chemical weapons during the conflict, saying the use of weapons of mass destruction constituted a "red line" being crossed.
Russia on Friday joined calls for a swift probe into the alleged chemical weapon attack.
Britain and France have pressed for a team of UN inspectors already in Syria to be granted immediate access to the sites of the gas attack that activists say killed more than 130 people.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Friday there was little chance the attack had been carried out by rebels.
Syrian refugees in the Quru Gusik camp in Iraq He said: "The only possible explanation of what we have been able to see is that it was a chemical attack and clearly many, many hundreds of people have been killed, some of the estimates are well over 1,000.
"I know some people in the world would like to say this is some kind of conspiracy brought about by the opposition in Syria - I think the chances of that are vanishingly small."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent his disarmament chief to Damascus to press Assad's regime to agree to an investigation.
Immediate access would allow inspectors to collect blood and soil samples to detect what chemicals - if any - were used.
The Assad regime has denied it has used chemical weapons, calling the allegations "absolutely baseless".
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