Rouhani: No Foreign Power Allowed to Intrude in Syrian Issue

Iranian President Hassan Rouhanistressed the necessity for the Syrian people to decide their own fate, and said foreign power should avoid meddling with the crisis in Syria.

“It is the Syrian people who will decide about their government and the government’s way of administration in the future and no country and no foreign power should or can make a decision about Syria’s future,”Rouhani said in a joint press conference with his Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer in Tehran.

 Stressing that all countries should help the Syrian people to establish security and stability in their country, he said that Iran will be present in any negotiations whose result will be a secure, stable and democratic future for Syria.

“The Syrian people’s life is important to us; the day Syria grows more secure, it will benefit the region and the world,” Rouhani said.

Noting that Iran’s priority now is putting an end to the crisis in Syria, he said, “Once this goal is fulfilled, it will be time to discuss political issues such as democracy and opposition in the Arab country.”

Rouhani underscored that Syrians should build the future of their country through popular voting and no foreign country can interfere in this issue.

He called for all countries to cooperate for the settlement of the Syrian crisis, and reiterated that Iran is ready to sit to the negotiating table with any country or world power to establish peace in the Arab country in case the negotiating partner understands that the future of Syria is an internal Syrian issue.

In relevant remarks on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad JavadZarif called on supporters of terrorist groups in Syria to stop their attempts to overthrow the Arab country’s legal president.

“Those who have set a condition about the president  al- Assad in the past two years should be blamed for the continued war and they should account for the bloodshed in the past few years,” Zarif said in a joint press conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo in Tehran.

Stressing that merely the Syrian people are entitled to make a decision about their country’s president, he called on the backers of the terrorist groups to give up their selfish moves and short-term benefits that they pursue at the expense of the Syrian people, and let the restoration of peace and reconciliation happen in Syria.

“We insist everyone to try the political solution to end the crisis in Syria and give up their dream of bringing about an end to the situation in Syria through military means,” Zarif said.

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