Al-Assad Meets Jalili: To Crush, Cleanse Syria of Terrorists
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed Tuesday to crush and cleanse the country of "terrorists".
"The Syrian people and their government are determined to purge the country of terrorists and to fight the terrorists without respite," he was quoted by state news agency SANA as telling visiting senior Iranian envoy Saeed Jalili.
The Syrian President affirmed that Syria is moving ahead with the national dialogue and is able by its people's will to foil the foreign projects that are aimed at targeting the resistance in the region and weakening Syria's role in it.
Al-Assad appeared earlier on television for the first time in more than two weeks in his meeting with Jalili.
For his part Jalili warned that the crisis in Syria was no longer an internal Syrian matter, but had become a battle between what he called the axis of resistance and its enemies.
"What is happening in Syria is not an internal issue but a conflict between the axis of resistance on one hand, and the regional and global enemies of this axis on the other," said Jalili, a top aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He added that he was in favor of "national dialogue between all domestic groups to be the solution, and believes foreign solutions are not helpful."
Referring to 48 Iranian pilgrims abducted over the weekend, Jalili told Iran's al-Alam Arabic-language television Tehran was using "all means possible" to secure their release.
He said Tehran held responsible not only the kidnappers but also those foreign governments that supported the rebels fighting Assad's forces.
"We believe that not only terrorists but also their supporters are responsible for this criminal act," Jalili said.
Later, Jalili and the accompanying Iranian delegation were received by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, with both underscoring continued coordination between Syria and Iran on highest levels to confront the attempts at blatant foreign interference in the Syrian internal affair.
Al-Moallem and Jalili discussed the Syrian government's initiatives to resolve the crisis and means of activating them with the aim to consolidate the Syrian solution to the crisis in conformity with the six-point plan of the UN envoy Kofi Annan towards establishing stability in the country.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed Tuesday to crush and cleanse the country of "terrorists".
"The Syrian people and their government are determined to purge the country of terrorists and to fight the terrorists without respite," he was quoted by state news agency SANA as telling visiting senior Iranian envoy Saeed Jalili.
The Syrian President affirmed that Syria is moving ahead with the national dialogue and is able by its people's will to foil the foreign projects that are aimed at targeting the resistance in the region and weakening Syria's role in it.
Al-Assad appeared earlier on television for the first time in more than two weeks in his meeting with Jalili.
For his part Jalili warned that the crisis in Syria was no longer an internal Syrian matter, but had become a battle between what he called the axis of resistance and its enemies.
"What is happening in Syria is not an internal issue but a conflict between the axis of resistance on one hand, and the regional and global enemies of this axis on the other," said Jalili, a top aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He added that he was in favor of "national dialogue between all domestic groups to be the solution, and believes foreign solutions are not helpful."
Referring to 48 Iranian pilgrims abducted over the weekend, Jalili told Iran's al-Alam Arabic-language television Tehran was using "all means possible" to secure their release.
He said Tehran held responsible not only the kidnappers but also those foreign governments that supported the rebels fighting Assad's forces.
"We believe that not only terrorists but also their supporters are responsible for this criminal act," Jalili said.
Later, Jalili and the accompanying Iranian delegation were received by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, with both underscoring continued coordination between Syria and Iran on highest levels to confront the attempts at blatant foreign interference in the Syrian internal affair.
Al-Moallem and Jalili discussed the Syrian government's initiatives to resolve the crisis and means of activating them with the aim to consolidate the Syrian solution to the crisis in conformity with the six-point plan of the UN envoy Kofi Annan towards establishing stability in the country.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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