TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and his Syrian counterpart, Farouq al-Shara, during a telephone conversation on Tuesday reviewed regional and international developments.

According to a statement released by Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the two ministers reiterated their countries' opposition to any attack on Iraq, which is severely pursued by American and Zionist officials.

They also called for a peaceful solution of the Iraqi crisis within the framework of the United Nations.

The head of the Arab League also said on Tuesday that a U.S.-led attack on Iraq would further destabilize the Middle East and aggravate seething Arab anger over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Amr Moussa, secretary general of the 22-member organization, told Reuters in an interview that an attack on Iraq "would open all negative possibilities", including more terrorism.

He said the whole Arab world was angry and frustrated over Israel's actions. An attack on Iraq in support of the declared U.S. policy of regime change would be a "double negative". "You will have instability in Iraq and the Persian Gulf, as we have instability around the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will add to the negative aspects of the situation. It will add to the frustration, to the anger, to the agitation in the region."

The U.S. government has been struggling for weeks to win unanimous support in the UN Security Council for a resolution on how to proceed with removal of suspected Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Washington threatens to go to war with Iraq should Baghdad fail to comply. Moussa said Washington's conservative Arab allies were not in danger from their populations because of anti-American feelings. "There is no gulf between governments and the ordinary man. Everybody is angry and frustrated." Asked whether he was worried about the Al-Qaeda terror network reaching out across the Middle East, Moussa said: "The whole picture looks bleak, I must say."

Osama al-Baz, a top adviser to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, agreed in a separate interview that anger over any attack on Iraq "is definitely going to be translated into acts of violence and unruly expressions in many Arab countries".

He said Iraq posed no threat to regional security and had not threatened any country since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. "Many Arabs and Muslims outside the Arab world and other nations in the Third World might believe rightly or mistakenly that the United States is targeting Arabs and Muslims for disciplinary action while ignoring altogether Israel's obnoxious behavior towards Palestinians and its other neighbors."

Baz added that Arabs could see no tangible evidence that Iraq was either building up its military capabilities or had any links with Al-Qaeda, as alleged by Washington.

"People believe Iraq never tolerated political opposition by Islamists or that there is any history of Iraqi cooperation with Al-Qaeda," he said.

thr 010 iran-syria-fms /pol/ iranian, syrian fms confer on int'l issues over phone damascus, nov 6, irna -- iranian foreign minister kamal kharrazi and his syrian counterpart, farouq al-shara, during a telephone conversation on tuesday reviewed regional and international developments.

according to a statement released by syrian arab news agency (sana), the two ministers reiterated their countries' opposition to any attack on iraq, which is severely pursued by american and zionist officials.

they also called for a peaceful solution of the iraqi crisis within the framework of the united nations.