A lawmaker welcomed a call by Qatar for an inclusive regional dialogue to settle conflicts across the Middle East, in defiance of a coalition of fellow Arab states seeking to deny Iran a role in any peace process.
"The differences need to be addressed around a regional table of negotiations," Alireza Ebrahimi said, citing a trilateral initiative, involving Iran, which proved critical to a campaign to dislodge the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group from Syria.
"The regional coalition between the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia, and Turkey restored stability to Syria, despite foreign interventions that had caused an escalation of tensions," he said in a Monday talk with ICANA.
Iran-backed militias and Russian air power have shored up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his war against a patchwork of armed opposition groups that want his ouster. Turkey, along with Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies, is a member of a western-led coalition that intervened in the Syria war, now in its
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