28 Mar 2024
[caption id="attachment_51744" align="alignright" width="180"] A picture dated June 13, 2003 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher (L) attending their father's funeral in Damascus on June 13, 2000.[/caption]
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian foreign ministry on Tuesday strongly rejected a Turkish daily report alleging that Tehran has promised the world powers to prevent Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's nomination in the 2014 election in exchange for the removal of the sanctions by the West.


"The report is completely unfounded," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said in her weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.

Her remarks came after the Turkish Zaman newspaper claimed that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has vowed to prevent President Assad's candidacy in 2014 presidential election in Syria quid pro quo the US and other western states' relief of embargos against Tehran.

Iran has always announced that it will respect any person that the Syrian people elect in the 2014 presidential voting as their president.

"We support the rights of the Syrian nation and their partnership in deciding their fate," former Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ramin Mehman-Parast said in an interview with the Indonesian daily Kompas in June.

"Anyone who is elected by the Syrian people should be respected by all and we also respect the Syrian people's president-elect," he underlined.

Mehman-Parast blasted certain countries and groups which send arms to the terrorist groups and rebels in Syria in a move to increase insecurity to prevent elections in that country, and said, "They don't want to see the materialization of the demands of the majority of the Syrian people, rather they want to impose their own views."

Earlier western reports said that US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, believes that President Bashar al-Assad is to gain 75% of the Syrian people's votes if he runs for presidency in the year of 2014.

According to the reports, the CIA said that Assad is to remain as a president of Syria till the year of 2020.

The intelligence agency also said it has built its information according to reports from inside Syria, in addition to opinion polls. These reports and polls show that Assad is to impartially get 75% of the votes as there is no other worth mentioning candidate that can stand against him for presidency.

The developments on the battlefield give superiority to the Syrian government which has been bolstering its popularity, CIA reported, noting that it believes that this situation will last to the next year when the presidential election will take place.

By Fars News Agency

 

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