Iranian MP: Arab League Secretary-General Strongly Opposed to US Intervention in Syria
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al-Arabi is categorically opposed to the US solutions and intervention to settle the crisis in Syria, an Iranian legislator said after a recent meeting with Al-Arabi.
“Nabil al-Arabi believed that the Syrian problem should be settled through negotiations and not by the measures pursued by the US in the country,” member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Esmae’il Kosari told FNA.
Kosari also said that al-Arabi believed that since the US has lost its long-term ally, Egypt, in the region, it wants to create problems in Syria.
Al-Arabi called for settling the differences in Syria through negotiations, he added.
Earlier, Head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi had called on all the regional countries to help Syria settle its internal problems and support the country against any possible US or NATO intervention.
“We should not let Syria become a US victim,” Boroujerdi said in a press conference at Iran’s Interests Section in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday.
“We should mobilize ourselves to help Syria, as a center of the Palestinian resistance, to stand firm,” he said, addressing Muslim countries and nations of the region.
Also, a senior Syrian lawmaker had warned against military intervention in his country, and stressed that any war on Damascus will leave devastating impacts on the Middle-East.
“If pressures mount on Syria, the Middle-East will move towards a devastating war and that would be a heavy cost,” Shahada Kamel told FNA on Tuesday.
“In case of a military attack on Syria, resistance groups in the region will not keep silent,” Kamel stated, and dismissed the existence of a trans-regional capability to start military intervention in the Arab country.
The remarks by the Syrian parliamentarian came after Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague said that military intervention in Syria is “not a remote possibility” as he called on the international community to exert stronger pressure on Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Meantime, the French authorities ruled out the possibility of military intervention in Syria, citing that the situation in Syria was different from Libya.
“The situation in Libya and Syria are not similar. No option of a military nature is considered,” Christine Fages, deputy spokeswoman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said during a regular press briefing.
