President Assad will stay in office until his term legally over: Iranian MP

A senior Iranian lawmaker has criticized the Syrian opposition’s move to name a naturalized Syrian-born US citizen as the head of what they call an interim government.

According to Press TV, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the Chairman of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Tuesday: “The move that was made today by the Syrian opposition and hosted by Turkey to select an interim prime minister is a childish game.”
He stressed: “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.”
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.”