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Iran declares open support to Syrian
leadership
Saturday March 31, 2012 11:04:22 PM,
IANS
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Beirut: Iran "would
not spare any effort to" support the Syrian leadership, its
Iranian deputy foreign minister said on a visit here Saturday.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran would not spare any effort to
embrace the Syrian Arab Republic and support its leadership,
regime and people in the direction that would preserve its
resistance role against aggression and the Zionist state," Hussein
Amir Abdollahian, Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and
African affairs, said after a meeting with Lebanese Foreign
Minister Adnan Mansour on bilateral and regional issues, reported
Xinhua.
"The only solution to the Syrian crisis is the political process
and nothing else," Abdollahian said, noting that Iran had made
efforts "to help Mr. Kofi Annan succeed in his Syrian mission. "
Annan, a former UN secretary general, was delegated last month as
the joint special envoy of the United Nations and Arab League to
mediate a solution to the Syrian crisis.
Abdollahian said Iran had seen "the political reforms announced by
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and that he is working on
implementing (them) ... and we are seeking that the Syrian people
should not be harmed in anyway, and to prevent by all means any
foreign intervention."
Abdollahian met Friday Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and
handed him a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
confirming "Iran's permanent support for Lebanon in various fields
and at all levels," according to a report by the state-run
National News Agency.
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