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Iran hopes to witness durable implementation of 30-day ceasefire in Syria

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Mon / 26 February 2018 / 15:06

Tehran (ISNA) – Iranian foreign ministry spokesman referred to the 30-day ceasefire in Syria approved by the UN Security Council, expressing hope that the ceasefire would be implemented and led to reduction in violence and beginning of delivering humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.

In a press conference held on Monday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, "The issue of Syria is complex and old and there are different actors in it. For a long time, there is no security, stability and peace here and the conflicts continue in this country".

"We hope the UNSC's new resolution can establish ceasefire across Syria and pave the way to deliver humanitarian aid to the Syrian people," he added.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Qassemi said, "The nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has many achievements in different fields for Iran although the Americans are trying to put obstacles in the way to prevent Iran from fully enjoys the interests of the nuclear deal".

In a reaction to the statements made by some US officials at Munich Security Conference calling European countries not to invest in Iran, Qassemi said, "The policy that Americans adopt against Iran and Iranian institutions is clear to everyone. The international community decides independently of others and based on its own national interests".

The spokesman also commented on Turkey's ongoing military operation in Syria's Afrin region, saying Iranian, Turkish, and Russian foreign ministers and presidents would be meeting in May to discuss the situation in the Arab country.

"These negotiations are instrumental in resolving differences, and will contribute to efforts aimed at restoring calm and fighting terrorism in Syria," he said.

Tehran and Ankara, Qassemi said, have shared common views on Syria at times and differed at others. "What is important is that we are cooperating" towards a resolution of the conflict in the Arab country, he added.

"This is one of the United States' very wrong policies, for which it will pay the price in the future," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi told reporters about US decision to formally recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's "capital" and announced plans to move the US embassy to the occupied holy city .

"With the mindlessness which we see in American decisions, there is need for serious action in the Islamic world," the official added.

Qassemi said a British resolution against Iran over the Yemen war, which is to be into a vote at the United Nations Security Council on Monday, would be helping "invaders and aggravate the invasion".

"We do not send arms to Yemen. Such blame games are being waged by those who are fanning the flames of war and bloodshed in Yemen," he said, Press TV reported.

The spokesman further said, "What is happening in Yemen is the result of arms exports by the United Kingdom and the United States to Saudi Arabia."

Iran, he said, was observing "dishonest behavior" on the part of the British government, which is trying to use the international mechanism to support the invader despite its claims of seeking to end the Saudi war.

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