{"id":11626,"date":"2012-08-09T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11626"},"modified":"2012-08-09T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:46:10","slug":"iran-takes-initiative-to-find-solutions-for-syria-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11626","title":{"rendered":"Iran takes initiative to find solutions for Syria Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran hosts Syria talks, calls for national dialogue<\/strong><br \/>\n9 August, 2012 &#8211; By Mohammad Davari &#8211; Agence France Presse<\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday hosted a 29-nation conference on Syria with the aim of stopping bloodshed there and forging a role for Tehran as peace-broker for its beleaguered Arab ally.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi opened the meeting by calling for &#8220;national dialogue between the (Syrian) opposition, which has popular support, and the Syrian government to establish calm and security,&#8221; according to state television.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Iran was prepared to host any such dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Salehi said Iran was opposed to &#8220;any foreign interference and military intervention in resolving the Syrian crisis&#8221; and supported efforts extended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.<\/p>\n<p>He said Iran had sent humanitarian aid to Syria to make up for international sanctions on Damascus that he said &#8220;are not in the interest of the Syrian people but have added to their suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excluded from the Tehran meeting were Western and Gulf Arab nations that Iran has accused of giving military backing to the bloody near 17-month insurgency seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.<\/p>\n<p>State media said the foreign ministers of Iraq, Pakistan and Zimbabwe were present.<\/p>\n<p>Lower-ranking diplomats, most of them ambassadors, represented the other nations.<\/p>\n<p>Salehi listed those nations as: Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Benin, Belarus, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Oman, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>A representative of the United Nations was also present.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2012\/Aug-09\/184010-tehran-summit-on-syria-conflict-gets-underway-iran-state-tv.ashx\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D11626&amp;text=Iran+takes+initiative+to+find+solutions+for+Syria+Crisis&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran hosts Syria talks, calls for national dialogue 9 August, 2012 &#8211; By Mohammad Davari &#8211; Agence France Presse TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday hosted a 29-nation conference on Syria with the aim of stopping bloodshed there and forging a role for Tehran as peace-broker for its beleaguered Arab ally. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11626#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2689],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11628,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions\/11628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}