Iran supports the deal between Russian Federation and the United States to bring about a truce in Syria, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency on Sunday.
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Fresh bombardment also hit the battleground city of Aleppo on Sunday, the Observatory said, a day after 12 civilians were killed in unidentified raids there.
It also expressed concern at clauses in the agreement indicating that Syrian government jets would not be barred from flying until up to nine days after the ceasefire had taken effect.
Aleppo, a major battleground in Syria’s conflict, has seen intensified fighting between government forces and the opposition in recent months, worsening the humanitarian situation there.
It remained unclear what Iran, a key ally of Mr Assad, made of the deal.
Aleppo has recently become the focus of the Syrian conflict, with almost 700 civilians, including 160 children, killed in 40 days of fighting, according to a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
The agreement, by the powers that back opposing sides in the five-year-old war, promises a nationwide truce from sundown on Monday, improved access for humanitarian aid and joint military targeting of hardline Islamist groups. It is not clear how these governments intend to distinguish between Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and other allied rebel factions or how they will be able to attack the al-Qaida linked militants without hitting other rebels as well.
Syria’s government has not issued an official comment on the truce, but Syrian state media on Saturday quoted what it called private sources as saying the government had given its approval.
An air strike on a market in Idlib killed up to 60 people while at least 45 died in strikes on Aleppo province, opposition activists say.
The Free Syrian Army groups wrote to the United States on Sunday about the deal it agreed on with Russian Federation, saying that while they would “cooperate positively” with the ceasefire, they were concerned it would benefit the government.
The ceasefire will not apply to the jihadist groups Islamic State or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, previously known as the Nusra Front until it broke formal allegiance to al Qaeda and changed its name.
Two more civilians were killed in airstrikes against rebel-controlled areas in the town of Jisr al-Shughur in the same province.
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are about to shake hands at the end of a press conference closing discussions on the Syrian crisis, in Geneva, September 9, 2016.
“We do not have a choice except to reach a political solution for the Syrian people that suffered from this unfair insane war for five years”.
The main Syrian opposition umbrella group says it hopes a new U.S.
If the ceasefire holds for one week, the USA and Russian Federation could start joint operations against jihadists from the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda’s former Syrian affiliate.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with various terrorist groups, including Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL), now controlling parts of it.
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The Islamist group signed on to an earlier ceasefire brokered by Russian Federation and the United States in February, though it did not take part in peace negotiations in Geneva that collapsed under resurgent violence.
