Alwaght- Russia insists involvement of influential external players, including Iran, is needed to resolve the Syrian crisis.
Reacting to US President Donald Trump’s recent anti-Iran comments, Russian minister said the resolution of problems in the West Asia and North Africa requires the participation of external actors that “influence the situation on the ground in one way or another. To a full extent, this also refers to Iran and to what has to be done to settle the Syrian crisi".
Sergei Lavrov also described the Islamic Republic as the “nucleus” of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), a working group formed to find a diplomatic solution to the Syria crisis.
In a Sunday speech to Arab Muslim leaders in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Trump singled out Iran as the world’s “biggest sponsor of terrorism” and urged its isolation, claiming that Iran’s role in Syria was among the “most tragic and destabilizing interventions.”
He made similar hostile remarks against Iran during his visit to the occupied territories on Monday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi slammed the US president’s remarks and said he “tried to encourage the countries of the region to purchase more [American] arms by spreading Iranophobia".
