Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has underlined the need for the involvement of influential external players, including Iran, in efforts to resolve the deadly conflict gripping Syria.
Lavrov made the remarks on Tuesday in response to a question on US President Donald Trump’s recent anti-Iran comments.
The resolution of problems in the Middle East and North Africa requires the participation of external actors that “influence the situation on the ground in one way or another. To a full extent, this also refers to Iran and to what has to be done to settle the Syrian crisis,” he said.
He also described the Islamic Republic as the “nucleus” of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), a working group formed to find a diplomatic solution to the Syria crisis.
In a Sunday speech to Arab Muslim leaders in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Trump singled out Iran as the world’s “biggest sponsor of terrorism” and urged its isolation, claiming that Iran’s role in Syria was among the “most tragic and destabilizing interventions.”
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