Iran Ready to Host Syria Talks, Warns of Foreign Intervention

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Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi expressed Tehran's readiness to host the next round of the quartet talks on the ongoing crisis in Syria.

"We have announced our readiness to host the next quartet summit to resolve Syria's crisis and if it is decided that the talks be hosted by another country, including Saudi Arabia, we will participate in that meeting," Salehi said at a joint press conference with his counterpart from Guinea-Bissau, Faustino Imbali.

Salehi said foreign ministers from the countries comprising the quartet group, namely Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, discussed the Syrian issue several times and achieved good results.
This comes as Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian revealed that US and its allies hatched different plots to undermine the Syrian government, including the imposition of a no fly zone over the country, in a bid to help the terrorist groups.

As he confirmed reports that chemical weapons were used in Syria, he stressed that evidence shows that "irresponsible armed groups" fighting against the Syrian government have used the banned weapons.
"They aimed to project the blame on the Syrian government to pave the way for foreign intervention in the Muslim country," Abdollahian said, and noted that "chemical weapons were used by the al-Nusra Front and a number of irresponsible armed groups."

He further accused the US and Qatar of extending most aid and support to these armed groups.
The Iranian official said some regional and trans-regional states which caused and helped terrorist attacks and al-Qaeda's presence in Syria now aim to push Syria into a new war in a bid to pave the ground for foreign intervention in Syria.

"We have precise information that some foreign parties have supplied terrorists with their needed possibilities in a bid to help them use chemical arms against the Syrian people and the army to spark hue and cry and pave the ground for foreign intervention in Syria," the Iranian deputy foreign minister cautioned.

He said in the second part of this plot the US would try to accuse the Damascus government of using chemical attacks to impose a no fly zone over Syria to limit the Syrian government and provide immunity for "irresponsible armed and terrorist groups".
The Iranian diplomat further warned that a no fly zone will further complicate situation in Syria.

Source: News agencies, Edited by moqawama.org