Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is convinced that creating a circle of support in settling the Syrian crisis without Iran�s participation would be worthless.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) � Russia is convinced that creating a circle of�support in�settling the Syrian crisis without�Iran�s participation would be worthless, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.

�In regard to�this format, we have said several times that we are convinced in�the worthlessness of�attempts to�create this type of�foreign circle of�support for�settling the Syrian crisis without�Iran, and we are of�course sure that in�the current circumstances it is important to�include Egypt, Qatar, the [United Arab] Emirates, and Jordan in�the group as�well,� Lavrov said during�an interview on�Russia�s Rossiya-1 television channel.

By Sputnik News