MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday discussed regional issues with the Elders on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

IFP- Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in Germany to participate in the 54th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), has held talks with several officials of different countries and world bodies. Zarif on Sunday held talks with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian, during which the two sides conferred on bilateral ...

By AFP ANKARA Turkey is turning to regional powers Iran and Russia, backers of the Damascus regime, to help it deal with Syria's bloody civil war that has spilled across its border with deadly shelling and a flood of refugees, analysts say. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave the first signs last week that Ankara may be shifting ...

By France 24 AFP -A senior official on Monday said Iran proposed to peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi a "transitional period" for Syria ahead of elections to be held under President Bashar al-Assad's supervision. "We proposed a halt to the violence and a truce, stopping supplying weapons and backing for armed terrorist groups and a national dialogue ...

[caption id="attachment_97791" align="alignright" width="204"] Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and former UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi[/caption] Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and former UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi have discussed the latest developments in the ...

Former UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi says the peace plan proposed by Iran to help resolve the deadly crisis gripping Syria is worth discussing. In a Sunday interview with the Washington-based al-Monitor website, Brahimi pointed to the four-point peace plan devised by the Islamic Republic to help end more than three ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohmmad Javad Zarif and UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi have discussed the ongoing crisis in Syria. In a phone conversation on Monday, Brahimi and Zarif discussed the latest developments in Syria and underlined the necessity for a political solution as the best way to settle the crisis in Syria....

U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is due to meet Thursday in Geneva with representatives of the Syrian government and opposition, as he tries to mediate an end to nearly three years of deadly violence. Brahimi will meet separately with each side and discuss how to proceed to the next step of direct negotiations. Those talks were scheduled ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told visiting U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar BrahimiSunday that part of a solution to the Syria crisis is to expel terrorist groups from that country, a report said. Iran believes that by continuing humanitarian aid, preventing the entry (and) expelling terrorist groups from Syria and the complete destruction of chemical ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Oman affirmed support for a political solution to the crisis in Syria. "Oman will spare no effort to peacefully resolve the crisis in Syria and use flexible diplomacy to solve the problems in the country," AFP quoted Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi as saying during a meeting with UN Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi. Talks ...

Iraqi Prime MinisterNouri al-Maliki has reiterated Baghdads support for a political solution to the deadly unrest in Syria, saying a military option has reached a dead end. The arrival of military options at a dead end and the growing conviction of the need to reach a political solution to the crisis have increased the odds of a successful push for ...

Wrangling between Syrias foreign-backed opposition groups has cast doubt on the Geneva II conference regarding the crisis in the Arab country. UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday that the presence of "credible" opposition is necessary for holding the Geneva II conference. Brahimi ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The UN reaffirmed its support for Irans presence in the Geneva II Conference in a bid to help put an end to the Syrian crisis. United Nations Spokesman Martin Nesirkysaid that Secretary General Ban-ki Moon and UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy in Syria Lakhdar Brahimi have stressed the necessity and importance of Irans presence ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Sunday urged Syria's warring parties to hold talks "without preconditions" and said he hoped negotiations could take place in Geneva in late November. In an interview with French-language television channel TV5 Monde, Brahimi expressed deep frustration with the stalled Syria peace process,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif once again underlined that Tehran is ready to take part in the planned International Geneva II Conference on the Syrian crisis. Zarif Tuesday expressed Irans readiness for attending the planned international Geneva II conference on Syria but only if asked. We are not begging to be ...

Irans President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran is ready to take part in the planned Geneva II conference on the Syrian crisis if invited without any preconditions. If invited without any preconditions, Iran will participate in the [Geneva 2] conference in order to help resolve the Syrian crisis, Rouhani said in a meeting with UN and Arab League special ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is scheduled to hold talks with former European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana. Zarif, who is on a trip to New York to attend the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly, will hold talks with Solana on Saturday. The Iranian Foreign Minister is also slated to meet with UN-Arab League Special ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said that there is a great hope to hold Geneva II next month, stressing that the Syrian militant groups have to recognize that there cannot be a military solution in Syria. Brahimi told Russia Today that the Russian-American role is central in any future settlement for the Syrian crisis, hoping ...

[caption id="attachment_30690" align="alignright" width="180"] A general view of the UN Human Right Council in debate on Syria in Geneva, May 29, 2013[/caption] UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The head of the United Nations says he hopes to have a second peace conference on Syria next month, although much still remains to be worked out. U.N. Secretary-General ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- UN/Arab League special envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is heading to Russia to help UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's efforts at the G20 to organize a peace conference to end the conflict in the Muslim country, the UN said Thursday. "The UN Secretary-General has just announced that Brahimi is on his way to Russia to help him push,...