Zarif: Iran Ready for Int'l Cooperation to Resolve Regional Crises
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated the country’s determination to cooperate with other countries at all levels to resolve crises in the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Yemen.
“We are prepared to cooperate (with other countries) at all levels and within international frameworks to resolve the problems of regional countries, Yemen and Syria in particular,” Zarif said in a press conference in the Tunisian capital on Tuesday.
He further said Tehran believes that a military solution cannot solve the problems of these countries and that any foreign intervention is dangerous.
“Military measures should stop to deliver humanitarian aid and to reach a political solution in these countries,” he noted.
The Iranian foreign minister added that the domestic parties in Syria and Yemen should hold dialogues to reach a national consensus.
Yemen's defenseless people have been under massive attacks by a coalition led by the Saudi regime for months.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies began to launch deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
More than 4000 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab country so far.
Syria has also been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with Takfiri terrorists from various groups, including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), currently controlling parts of it.
The US and its regional allies have been supporting the militants operating inside Syria for over four years.
