Iranian Lawmakers Urge Int'l Bodies to Stop Terrorists' Brutalities in Syria

The call was made yesterday in a meeting of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.

"Members of the commission called on the international organizations to take action to stop continuation of war crimes in Syria by armed Syrian groups," Rapporteur of the Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini told reporters after the meeting.

He added that the parliamentary commission convened earlier in the day to discuss the latest developments in Syria.

The lawmaker stated that the commission condemned the recent war crime committed by the armed Syrian opposition through execution of Syrian soldiers.

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.

The US daily, Washington Post, reported in May that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups battling the President Bashar al-Assad's government have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.

The newspaper, quoting opposition activists and US and foreign officials, reported that Obama administration officials emphasized the administration has expanded contacts with opposition military forces to provide the Persian Gulf nations with assessments of rebel credibility and command-and-control infrastructure.
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