Boroujerdi: PM for Syria Opposition a Childish Game

Chairman of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee criticized on Tuesday the Syrian opposition’s move to name a naturalized Syrian-born US citizen as the head of what they call an interim government.

“The move that was made today by the Syrian opposition [and] hosted by Turkey to select an interim prime minister is a childish game,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi said.

“Despite all foreign pressures and the support from the United States and its regional allies for terrorists, the government of [Syrian President] Basher al-Assad will continue to work until the end of the presidential term in 2014,” he stressed.

The comments came hours after Syria’s foreign-backed opposition group, known as the Syrian National Coalition, convened in Istanbul and picked Ghassan Hitto as the prime minister of the so-called interim government.

Boroujerdi said the move will further complicate the situation in Syria, and urged the Turkish government to help end the turmoil and killing of innocent people in the Arab country, “instead of helping the protraction of the crisis.”

Hitto, 50, who lived in Texas until recently, moved to Turkey last November in an effort to manage military aid to areas held by the foreign-backed militants who are fighting against the Assad government, media reports said.