Iranian FM: Insecure Syria Benefits No One but Zionist Regime
20/11/2012
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s foreign minister blamed the terrorist groups and their foreign advocates for continued instability and bloodshed in Syria, saying that lack of stability and tranquility in the Arab country only serves the interests of the Zionists.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made the remarks in a meeting with Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Syria’s Aleppo, on the sidelines of the second day of the Syrian National Dialogue Conference in Tehran on Monday.
“It is only the Zionist regime (Israel) that benefits from a weak and insecure Syria,” Salehi emphasized.
Over 200 Syrian religious and political figures, leaders of tribes and parties as well as representatives and leaders of the opposition groups joined the two-day meeting in Tehran which kicked off on Sunday November 18.
Also a number of Syrian parliament members as well as senior political figures from Sudan, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Brazil and Zimbabwe have taken part the meeting.
This was the first time that both Syrian opposition figures and the minister of national reconciliation Ali Haidar, as the representative of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, are discussing ways of finding a solution to the Syrian crisis.
The Syrian National Dialogue Conference, titled “No to Violence, Yes to Democracy”, kicked off in Tehran on Sunday.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is in favor of negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition groups to create stability in the Middle Eastern country.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.
