Iran ‘hostile’ to US involvement in Syria talks

AFP, TEHRAN: Iranian officials said Wednesday they were strongly opposed to the United States joining Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported.
“We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Tuesday, according to the Tasnim news agency.
That goes against the position of the other two organisers of the talks—Russia and Turkey—which have said the new US administration of Donald Trump should be represented in Astana on Monday.
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council which oversees international coordination on the Syrian war, confirmed on Wednesday that Iran had refused to invite the US.
“There is no reason for the United States to participate in the organising of political initiatives in the Syrian crisis and it is out of the question that they should have a role

Iran hostile to US involvement in Syria talks

AFP, TEHRAN: Iranian officials said Wednesday they were strongly opposed to the United States joining Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported. We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Tuesday, according to the Tasnim news agency. That goes against the position of the other two organisers of the talksRussia and Turkeywhich have said the new US administration of Donald Trump should be represented in Astana on Monday. Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council which oversees international coordination on the Syrian war, confirmed on Wednesday that Iran had refused to invite the US. There is no reason for the United States to participate in the organising of political initiatives in the Syrian crisis and it is out of the question that they should have a role