“We feel that the government and haj officials in Saudi Arabia have not taken responsibility for the Mina disaster, did not take appropriate steps to save the pilgrims and have not conducted an investigation into the victims’ situation”, Zarif said according to IRNA.
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“The Syrian army was about to collapse because none of the young people wanted to do their military service and went to Europe”, said one Lebanese intelligence official speaking from Beirut.
Rafsanjani also added that after the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia supported Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the war, Rafsanjani worked to ease tensions with Saudi Arabia.
Commenting on the question of whether Iran is a strategic ally of Russian Federation or only a part of a coalition in Syria, Abdollahian said that it “has a strategic relations with Moscow”.
U.S. officials say the CIA-trained militants are now under Russian missile strikes with little prospect of rescue by their American supporters.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported Wednesday that Iranian troops were arriving in Syria and were transported to the military base in the town of Jableh. “They are of course interested in a stable region and not the chaos and bloodshed that the United States has been funding”, said Bennett. Last week, a US defense official said hundreds of Iranian troops were near the city in preparation for an offensive.
Then, this past weekend, thousands of pro-government fighters backed by Russian artillery, jets and helicopters launched an assault aimed at retaking Aleppo, which has been split in the years-long stalemate between the government and rebel groups.
Amir-Abdollahian said he had held constructive talks in Brussels with Federica Mogherini, the European Union foreign policy chief, on proposals to advance a political solution in Syria.
More than a quarter of a million people have been killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Friday. But we are very cognisant of his role in the fight against terrorism and the national unity of that country.
“They had their shirts handed to them”, he said.
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Several Shiite militias including Kitaeb Hezbollah have had a presence in Syria since 2013, though numerous militia fighters were pulled back to Iraq in June 2014, as the Islamic State made rapid advances in the country, threatening the capital, Baghdad.
