(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "A political solution should be introduced to the crisis in that country (Syria) and Iran is talking and negotiating with different countries to that end," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman on Thursday evening.
During the meeting held on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit here in Tehran, Suleiman, too, stressed the necessity to find a negotiated solution to the Syrian crisis.
"The most effective move to resolve the crisis in Syria is arousing a will in the two conflicting parties to negotiate with each other and reach an agreement to protect their homeland and country," the Lebanese president noted.
In relevant remarks, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with Suleiman described efforts to stop supply of arms to terrorist groups in Syria as the only way to settle the crisis in the Arab country.
"The only way to solve the Syrian issue is preventing the dispatch of weapons for irresponsible groups," Ayatollah Khamenei said on Thursday.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.
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