Syria

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari warned against a plot hatched by the Zionist regime of Israel and its main ally, the US, to break up Iraq and Syria and made assurances that Iran will thwart the scheme.

Iranian deputy FM said the crisis in Syria will only be resolved through respecting the country’s sovereignty, independence, national unity and territorial integrity as well as the Syrian people’s will.

For now, we should not pass an angry judgment about Russia's failure to respond, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, Abdel Bari Atwan, said in an opinion piece.

Supreme Leader’s advisor Ali Akbar Velayati says those who have formed Daesh Takfiri group must be tried in international courts as war criminals.

Foreign Minister Zarif urges the American candidates to wake up to the real world in an interview with the New Yorker.

Terrorists should never have been allowed to set the agenda, or dictate the response.

A former IRGC commander has said that Moscow’s military intervention in Syria seems justifiable as far as the Russian national interests are concerned, adding that it will eventually help shift the balance in the region.

A former Iranian Foreign Ministry official has said that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action has been a real help to Iran’s greater involvement in international efforts to solve regional questions.

An advisor to the foreign minister has said that representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition should be part of interactive talks aimed at solving the Syrian crisis.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif authoritatively took on Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister during recent negotiations on the Syrian crisis in the Austrian capital of Vienna, says a senior Iranian official.

A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official talks about the Vienna conference on Syria and different roles regional and international players played in the meeting.

At one point, Dr. Zarif responded to those remarks nonchalantly, and, at another, he openly rejected each of Al-Jubeir's comments, Deputy Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian said.

Rouhani has called for better ties with Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia has rebuffed all of Iran's attempts at engagement, Mousavian said in an opinion piece.

Many observers view the exclusion of Iran from earlier talks on Syria – under pressure from Riyadh and with a US green-light – as illogical, Atwan said.

The future of Syria can only be determined by the people of Syria, Zarif said at international talks on Syria in Vienna.

A senior Iranian official has strongly rejected reports that the Islamic Republic has agreed to a plan for the removal from power of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in six months.

Iran has called for an end to meddling in Syria’s domestic affairs, saying the issue of foreign interference will be raised in the upcoming peace summit in Vienna, Press TV reports.

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi has said that the Saudi regime’s participation in the multilateral Syria talks in Vienna is suspicious and illegitimate.

Iran has said that Foreign Minister Zarif will go to Vienna for the talks on the future of Syria.

US financial and military support for the so-called moderate terrorists has caused numerous problems and complicated conditions in the region, Afkham said.

Zarif and Lavrov have discussed the latest developments in Syria and exchanged views on the role of external players in the political settlement of the Arab country.

An Afghan analyst has said that a decision by the US and Russia to deconflict any overlapping airstrikes in Syria indicates that the two sides may have reached an agreement over the future of Syria.

Iran has no combatant forces in Syria, but its military advisors assist the Syrian central government in its campaign against terrorism, Amir Abdollahian said.

Moscow has warned regional nations that terrorists who flee Russian airstrikes are flouting a shave ban to go across the border into other countries.

President Putin of Russia has reportedly turned down $300 billion in Saudi kickbacks to topple Assad.