Spokesman: Mursi's New Proposal on Syria Close to Iran's Plan

Mehman-Parast underlined comprehensiveness of Iran's plan on Syria, and said, "In a trilateral meeting of Iranian, Turkish and Egyptian presidents on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit meeting in Cairo (last month), President Mursi proposed a plan on behalf of Egypt which was very close to Iran's proposal."

Mehman-Parast said Tehran is due to study Mursi's new proposal and declare its viewpoints, but did not mention any specific date for announcing Iran's views.

"For the time being, I can just say that this proposal is much close to our six-point plan" on Syria, he reiterated.

Last month, Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker for International affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam announced that Tehran welcomes Mursi's new proposal on Syria.

"Tehran has welcomed Mursi's plan for Syria since the proposal was against war and in favor of political solution," Sheikholeslam explained.

Sheikholeslam underlined that many countries have come to the conclusion that only a political solution can resolve the crisis and that continuing the war and violence in Syria would be detrimental.

Earlier last month, 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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