President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday reiterated Iran's staunch support for Damascus, insisting that a rebel victory in Syria would threaten the entire region, his office's website said.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday reiterated
Iran
's
staunch support for
Damascus
,
insisting that a rebel victory in
Syria
would
threaten the entire region, his office's website said.
"A group coming into power through war and conflict will lead to continued
war and security problems for a long time," Ahmadinejad told a delegation
led by Essam El Haddad, adviser to
Egypt
's
President Mohamed Morsi.
"The lack of security in
Syria
will
endanger the security of other regional countries and will threaten the entire
region," Ahmadinejad said, adding that
Tehran
and
Cairo
should "accelerate their efforts to resolve Syrian issues based on
understanding and dialogue."
Haddad arrived in
Tehran
on
Saturday to further a proposal by
Cairo
for
an Islamic quartet that would help to resolve the Syrian conflict.
Egypt
has
proposed that
Turkey
,
Egypt
and
bitter regional rivals
Saudi Arabia
and
Iran
form
the quartet.
Turkey
,
Egypt
and
Saudi
Arabia
support the mostly Sunni
rebels in
Syria
fighting the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, while
Iran
has
remained a steadfast ally of
Damascus
regime throughout the two-year conflict which the U.N. says has killed more
than 70,000 people.
The delegation's visit comes amid a faltering rapprochement between
Iran
and
Egypt
after
decades of severed diplomatic ties.
Ahmadinejad said
Tehran
"is ready to expand comprehensive ties" with
Cairo
and
"fully supports any measures that take bilateral moves forward."
The two nations severed ties after the 1979 Islamic revolution brought to power
a theocratic government in
Tehran
that
opposed
Cairo
's
peace treaty with
Israel
.
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