Summary Iran has expressed its favour for Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad to end the civil war in country.
TEHRAN: Iran on Monday threw its weight behind a plan outlined by Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad to end the civil war in his country, reiterating Tehran’s solid support for its most important regional ally.
“The Islamic republic supports President Bashar al-Assad’s initiative for a comprehensive solution to the country’s crisis,” Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in a statement on his ministry website.
“Assad’s plan includes solutions which reject violence and terrorism and any foreign interference in the country, and outlines a comprehensive political process” to end the conflict, Salehi said.
Assad, in a rare speech on Sunday, offered a proposal to resolve the conflict in Syria that called for an end to violence, dialogue with opposition elements he deemed acceptable, and a vow to stand fast against those he branded “terrorists” and their foreign backers.
The Syrian opposition and the West, though, immediately rejected the initiative as a defiant restating of Assad’s intent to cling to power.
