Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to Iran’s foreign minister, and Staffan de Mistura, the UN’s Special Envoy for Syria, have sat for talks in Tehran.
Son of Egypt’s former president Gamal Abdel Nasser has written a letter to Bashar al-Assad to vehemently condemn the recent US-led missile attack on Syria.
A senior Iranian journalist and commentator says the Syrian army must fire missiles at Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in retaliation for the airstrikes on Syria conducted by a US-led coalition supported by Saudis and Emiratis.
Syria’s anti-aircraft defenses shot down a number of missiles that hit an airbase in the central Homs province and a military airport in the capital Damascus on Monday night, a report said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the airstrikes by the US and its Western allies against Syria once again proved Washington has direct ties with terrorists in Syria.
US President Donald Trump lied to the American people after the US military in conjunction with British and French forces, instead of striking alleged “targets associated with chemical weapons” capabilities in Syria, hit a center for producing anti-cancer drugs near Damascus.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has described as an act of “betrayal” the silence by certain Islamic countries in the face of the US-led military action against Syria.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has categorically condemned the US-led missile strikes on Syria, warning about the consequences of the “crime”.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has vehemently condemned the US-led airstrikes in Syria, describing them as an effort to sabotage the Syria peace process.
A fact-finding team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is on its way to Syria to investigate an alleged gas attack, while US President Donald Trump has already accused the Syrian government of being behind it and vowed retaliation against Damascus.
A senior aide to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has visited Syria’s Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.
The Russian ambassador to Tehran says no one could claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the opposition, stressing that there is no doubt the supporters of the terrorists were behind the attack.
Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, says coordination and consultation between Iran and Syria should be enhanced with the aim of increasing the success of the Syrian Arab Army against terrorists and their supporters.
Iranian foreign minister’s special assistant for political affairs, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, said in Iran’s view, employing chemical weapons by any party is totally unacceptable and rejected recent Western accusations about the Syrian government’s use of such weapons as fabricated.
Iran’s top security official and Russian president’s special envoy have discussed the latest developments in Syria, including the US threat to interfere in Syria and the recent Israeli attack on a Syrian airport.
The bodies of seven Iranian military advisers who lost their lives in an attack by Israeli warplanes on the T-4 airbase in Syria's Homs were transferred to Tehran on Tuesday.
Syrian government has expressed its preparedness to hold talks with Jaysh al-Islam, a coalition of Islamist rebel units involved in the Syrian Civil War.
Reports suggest that some Arab countries backed by the US and Saudi Arabia are trying to bring Syria back to the Arab League, a move which could be seen as part of the “soft policy” adopted by Washington and its regional allies.
Turkish Armed Forces and their allied forces have taken the full control of Afrin in north-western Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday.
