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Iran: Our support for Syria remains strong and steadfast
by Joseph Earnest September 26, 2012
Newscast Media TEHRAN—Iran has called rumors that Tehran embraces an overthrow or regime change of Syria "sheer lies" and has pledged its steadfast support for the Syrian people and Bashar al-Assad, Fars News Agency reports.
According
to FNA,
Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir
Abdollahian said on Wednesday that Iran's stance on Syria is "clear and
transparent", and stressed the recent claims that Iran has consented to
the fall of the Syrian president are "untrue".
"Supporting the Syrian people and Bashar Assad's reforms has always
been at the center of Iran's attention," Abdollahian underscored.
He pointed to the meeting of the so-called Contact Group on Syria in
Cairo, and reminded that the group has agreed on "political solution to
Syria, cessation of hostilities and stop of arms shipments to rebel
groups, negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition
groups, and democratic decision-making about the future of Syrian by the
country's people and through election".
"The Islamic Republic of Iran is serious about defending Syria's national sovereignty as (part of) an axis of resistance against the Zionist regime and will stay on the side of that nation," Boroujerdi said in a meeting with head of the Syrian parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission Fadiya Daib and head of the National Security Commission Mohammad Sobhi Abu al-Shamat here in Tehran.
Iran's
Ahmadinejad is currently in New York attending his last UN General Assembly
meeting as president. When asked in an interview yesterday by Al-Monitor
whether he will retire from politics after his presidency he replied, "Of course, I cannot be away from a political atmosphere. Wherever I am, politics will follow me."
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