By Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Foreign ministry officials of Iran, Syria and Switzerland would meet in Tehran on Tuesday. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Countries Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad and a Swiss foreign ministry official would take part in the event which aims to explore the recent Middle ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides underlined that the Syrian crisis should be resolved immediately through joint efforts by different world countries. Although Cyprus is a tiny country, the issue of Syria is of importance to it from various aspects, and we are willing to see the problem in Syria be resolved immediately,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani underlined Tehrans support for the political resolution of the conflict in Syria. The Islamic Republic of Iran supports a political solution that will stop terrorist atrocities in Syria and is based on democracy and peoples vote, Larijani said Sunday upon his arrival at Damascus airport. He ...

Tehran, Dec 3, IRNA Senior official at Foreign Ministry urged the need on Wednesday for finding a Syrian way out of the ongoing crisis, stressing that any solution must be based on realities of the region and those inside Syria. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told reporters at her weekly press conference that Tehran has always been ...

Western policy towards Syria is rather like Western policy toward Crimea and Ukraine at the moment its floundering around, talking big but really not having the will to act, political analyst Chris Bambery told RT. RT:Is pouring more arms into Syria a realistic way to solve the conflict? Chris Bambery:No, because the Saudi Arabians can offer money ...

[caption id="attachment_90678" align="alignright" width="210"] Arab leaders stand for a group photo before the 25th Arab League summit in Kuwait City on March 25, 2014.[/caption] Arab leaders struggling with an array of foreign policy disputes have opened an annual summit in Kuwait in a bid to forge a common stand on regional crises. The ongoing ...

Tehran, March 17, IRNA -- Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian called for an international effort to help resolve the crisis in Syria by facilitating dialogue among the opposing factions. World countries and regional organizations must help devise a political solution in Syria based on a democratic process ...

TEHRAN, Iran The general feelingin Tehran was mixed when Catherine Ashton, high representative for foreign affairs and security policy for the European Union, arrivedon March 8. Government officials, especially those at the Foreign Ministry, celebrated Ashton's visit as solid proof that their months-long efforts had borne fruitin lifting thediplomatic ...

Tehran, March 12, IRNA Member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Nozar Shafie on Wednesday proposed a trio solution to Syria crisis, including formation of contact group by the pro-Syria states, closing Syria borders and overseeing Syria elections. Shafie told the first meeting of the heads of foreign policy commissions of ...

Irans Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has warned of the spread of terrorism to Europe, saying Western countries are not resolute in resolving the crisis in Syria. Addressing an international parliamentary meeting on the ongoing Syrian crisis in Tehran on Wednesday, Larijani added that the Geneva II conference on Syria failed to produce any results because ...

A senior Iranian lawmaker says he believes some regional supporters of military action against Syria will soon shift their policy to advocating political solutions for the crisis in the Arab country. The developments inside Syria make everyone come to the conclusion that the solution for the Syrian crisis is not a military [one]; and, I think, in ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has once again reaffirmed Tehrans support for finding a solution to the Syrian crisis through political means and negotiations. There is no other solution, the only ones who can decide the future of Syria are the Syrian people, Zarif said during a joint press conference with his Qatari Counterpart Khalid ...

Iran Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has reaffirmed Tehrans call for resolving the ongoing crisis in Syria through diplomacy, not military intervention. In a Saturday press conference, Larijani said the talks between the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition in the Swiss city of Geneva have not been progressing well due to serious differences....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahianonce again renewed Tehrans support for a political solution to the Syrian crisis, reiterating that unrests in the Muslim country cannot be soothed through military means. Addressing a meeting with 25 visiting Tunisian journalists in Tehran on Wednesday, the Iranian deputy foreign ...

Without Iranian and Saudi participation in talks on Syria, we will continue with small agreements which probably will be difficult to implement on the ground, Paolo Raffone, Middle East expert, told RT. RT:This agreement in Geneva looks like a breakthrough, but do the opposition delegates have the authority to make sure civilians are given safe passage ...

[caption id="attachment_21012" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy foreign minister described the talks on the prolonged crisis in Syria, now in progress in Switzerland, as a political show, saying he was highly skeptical about fruitfulness of the conference....

MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) -- Syria's foreign minister has accusing his country's opposition of being traitors and agents of Israel and says neighboring countries set Syria ablaze by sending arms and fighters to the civil war. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem spoke just after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who accused Syria's government of turning ...

ISTANBUL The United Nations on Monday revoked an invitation to Iran to attend a crucial peace conference on Syria in Switzerland, culminating a day of chaotic international diplomacy that included loud U.S. objection to Irans participation anda threat by the Syrian oppositionto boycott the talks.   Under intense American pressure, U.N. Secretary ...

[caption id="attachment_51709" align="alignright" width="180"] Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Chinas Foreign Minister Wang Yiwill take part in the Geneva-2 conference on the Syrian conflict, Spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Hong Lei said on Monday. "On January 22, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will take ...