(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "Empowerment of any group through war and conflict in Syria means continued war and insecurity for a long time," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Egyptian President's Senior Advisor in Foreign Relations Essam el-Haddad in Tehran on Sunday.
Noting that Iran and Egypt share common views on Syria, he said, "We should accelerate our measures to settle the problems in Syria based on understanding and talks and I hope that we can use all our power in this path and I believe that victory belongs to nations with God's assistance."
Haddad, who is visiting Tehran as the Egyptian president's special envoy, stressed the necessity for ending violence and bloodshed in Syria, and said, "We believe that God has entrusted Iran and Egypt with the responsibility to settle the crisis in Syria and we should prevent the interference of foreign states in Syria by taking the initiative in our hands."
Earlier in February, presidents of Iran, Egypt and Turkey in a meeting in Cairo underscored the necessity for an immediate stop in the bloodshed, violence and crisis in Syria.
In their trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the OIC Summit, Ahmadinejad, Mursi and Gul proposed several initiatives and discussed various issues related to solving the Syrian crisis, but they were all agreed on the point that the massacres and bloodshed there needed to end immediately.
The three political leaders at the meeting commissioned the three countries foreign ministers to have a series of meetings to sum up the discussed issues and present them to the concerned parties and officials in Syria so that the crisis and bloodshed there would hopefully come to an end.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against the Syrian police, border guards, statesmen, army and the civilians being reported across the country.
Thousands of people have been killed since terrorist and armed groups turned protest rallies 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 almost restored in most parts of the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies brought the country into chaos through every 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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