'Syria is Calm,' Iran Foreign Minister Says
The situation in Syria is "calm," requiring no repatriation of Iranian citizens there, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday, according to the official news agency IRNA.
"Syria is calm and Iranian nationals who are there have no problem and there is no need to conduct any special action" for them, Salehi was quoted as saying.
The minister's comments were made the same day a British-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Syrian government troops used tanks to besiege an outlying district of Damascus, a week after heavy clashes first broke in the capital.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said there was combat in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, and four rebel fights were killed in Idlib, in the country's northwest.
At least 19,000 people have been killed in violence in Syria since the outbreak of an anti-regime revolt in March 2011, the Observatory said.
Iran is the chief ally of Syria's beleaguered President Bashar Assad.
Several hundred thousand Iranians travel to Syria each year to make pilgrimages to a Shiite holy site south of Damascus.
22 July 2012, 23:59
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He and his boss and the whole regim,s clic need MARTYR! that is the question! otherwise when the Islamist Jahad had left Syria and have moved to Iran for being safe, why the Iranians should stay in Syria ? When even Iraq have taken home his people, why The Iranians should stay on? They com to be Martys in coming weeks and not months for The Regime of Iran.
I am an Iranian
23 July 2012, 03:23
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Let the Iranian nationals stay in Syria when ASSad falls. No doubt the new regime will have a message for them. The people of Syria might also want to talk to them in the streets.
23 July 2012, 12:48
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One of thiese days, Iran will be as "quiet" as Syria pal...one of these days...
23 July 2012, 14:02
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lol if this is calm i cant wait till the storm hits!!!!Long Live The Syrian Civil War.
