Assad’s plan based on Syria’s realities: Iran lawmaker

An Iranian lawmaker says the plan proposed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resolve the country’s crisis is based on the current realities of the Arab state.

Seyyed Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini said on Wednesday that foreign countries are supporting terrorists in Syria and providing them with weapons, while the people are standing by their country.

“This crisis will result in the massacre of the people,” said the spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.

“Terrorists will never overcome the Syrian people and government,” Naqavi-Hosseini noted, saying that Assad has considered the reality that the ongoing war in Syria is between foreign powers on the one side and the Syrian people and government on the other.

In a key speech on Sunday, Assad said his government is always ready to hold talks with the opposition and political parties and will call for a “comprehensive national dialog” after foreign parties end their support for the militants and the terrorist activities end in the country.

Syria has been the scene of unrest since early 2011 and has witnessed the deaths of many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel in the violence.