By Mohammad Ghaderi

Moscow meeting: Dialogue versus militancy in Syria

On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to Moscow for a one-day visit to meet with foreign ministers of Turkey and Russia on the current situation in Syria.

By Mohammad Ghaderi  

Military solution will only prolong Syria crisis: Zarif

MOSCOW – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that insisting on a military solution to the ongoing Syrian conflict will only make it linger on further.

Iran, Russia, Turkey meet to revive Astana talks after U.S. raid on Syria

MOSCOW – The foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey met in Moscow on Saturday to revive talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

Zarif, Lavrov to discuss nuclear deal in Moscow

MOSCOW – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that he plans to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA.

Author: A’zam Vosughi

Iran-West strategic struggle over Syria: patience and intelligence, caution and provocation

TEHRAN - Given the current situation of the United States and Europe, western countries will not engage themselves into a war which would cost them overburdening expenses. So far, involvement of these countries in conflicts in western Asia has been through proxies and provision of military equipment.

By Eric Zuesse

Might Trump ask Israel to fund America’s invasion-occupation of Syria?

MODERN DIPLOMACY - On 16 April 2018, the internationally respected analyst of Middle-Eastern affairs, Abdel Bari Atwan, headlined about Trump’s increasingly overt plan to break Syria up and to establish permanent U.S. control over the parts it wants, “Attempting the Unachievable”. He stated that “The coming few months are likely to prove very difficult for the Americans, and very costly, not just in Syria but also in Iraq.” He closed: “Who will cover the costs of this American move?

It is a ‘mistake’ to quit nuclear deal, British envoy says

TEHRAN – The British ambassador to Tehran says his country is doing everything possible to prevent the collapse of the nuclear deal, stressing that the U.S. and Iran would be “making a mistake” if they pull out of the international agreement.

By Eric Zuesse

U.S.: No restitution to Syria

On April 22nd, an anonymous U.S. “Senior Administration Official” told a press conference in Toronto, that the only possible circumstance under which the U.S. Government will agree to pay anything for the harms (bombings of infrastructure etc.) it’s doing to Syria, would be if Syria will agree to cede, to U.S. control, a portion of its land:

By Javad Heirannia

Arab force in Syria would be “ineffective”: Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, strongly believes that “The Saudis will not do any heavy fighting. Just ask Americans what Saudis contributed during Operation Desert Storm!”

By Mohammad Ghaderi

The only way of Trump in Syria

TEHRAN - About five years ago, when former U.S. President "Barack Obama" spoke of a military strike in Syria, "Zbigniew Brzezinski", the former U.S. national security adviser and one of the country's main foreign policy strategists, objected to the call of the White House. He noted that the United States lacks a proper strategy towards the Middle East and Syria. Military action should, if it is inevitable, take place within a more developed strategy.

Jaberi-Ansari, Assad discuss developments in Syria

TEHRAN – Hossein Jaberi-Ansari, the Iranian foreign minister's special assistant for political affairs, met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Monday to discuss the latest developments in Syria.

General Jafari denounces U.S. Syria raid as ‘cheap’

TEHRAN – Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the missile attack of the trilateral coalition comprising the U.S., Britain and France against Syria was “cheap” and “disgraceful”.

Iranian diplomat says unilateral U.S.-led attacks on Syria are worrisome

Iran’s Ambassador to London Hamid Baeedinejad has said that the U.S.-led attacks on Syria are worrisome and go against the UN Charter.

UN envoy de Mistura visits Tehran for Syria talks

TEHRAN – UN Special Envoy for Syrian Affairs Staffan de Mistura made a visit to Tehran on Saturday afternoon for talks with a number of Iranian officials on the Syrian crisis.

By Dogu Perinçek

We are with Syria against imperialist attacks

We are with the Syrian Arab Republic, the Syrian Army, and the Syrian Nation; our brothers and neighbors. Our hearts beat with theirs. We support their heroic resistance against USA’s imperialism from Turkey.

Iran, Russia, Syria, Iraq hold intelligence committee meeting

TEHRAN – Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq held a quartet intelligence committee meeting in Baghdad on Thursday, the Mehr news agency reported.

By Sirus Fathollahi

Why Zionists insistence that American stay in region?

More than seven years, That Syrian government and people are involved in crisis. Many different terrorist groups in a various types as an ISIS and Al-Nosra front for years under protection of some regional and trans-regional countries the security of this country has been challenged.

By Javad Heirannia

Attack on Syria didn't have a basis in international law: Pillar

TEHRAN – Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells the Tehran Times that the attack on Syria was “neither in self-defense nor authorized by the United Nations Security Council, it did not have a basis in international law.

By Mahmood Monshipouri

Military Strikes against Syria

The U.S. surgical attacks—coordinated with France and Britain—against chemical facilities in Syria on Saturday April 13, 2018, in response to the alleged chemical weapons attacks in rebel-held Douma, fell far-short of achieving a broader goal based on a coherent strategy to deal with the Syrian civil war.

Ex-diplomat: Syria attack was retaliation against Russia, Iran

TEHRAN – Ali Khorram, a senior analyst and former Iranian ambassador to UN bodies in Vienna, says the recent U.S.-led attack against Syria was an act of retaliation against Russia and Iran.

By Eric Zuesse

What Just Happened?

What happened right after the second direct U.S.-missiles invasion of Syria, which had occurred on the night of April 13th, could turn out to have momentous implications — far bigger than the attacks themselves.

By Yuram Abdullah Weiler

Locked, loaded and lost: an arrogant autocrat’s abortive surgical strike on Syria

“It’s not the cigar, stupid. It’s the cruise missiles launched to cover the shame.” — Christopher Hitchens

Iranian parliamentary team to visit Syria after U.S. attack

TEHRAN – A few days after a U.S.-led attack targeted three sites in Syria a delegation of Iranian lawmakers are scheduled to visit Damascus on Tuesday.

Tehran says Syria raid won’t impact foreign policy

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Monday that the recent aggression against Syria, which is considered “warmongering”, will not impact Iran’s foreign policy, noting that Tehran will continue to follow the same principles that it has being pursuing over the past decades.

Salehi says Syria raid shows U.S. ‘political bankruptcy’

TEHRAN - Ali Akbar Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on Monday that air raids on Syria show the “political bankruptcy” of the United States.

Wherever U.S. has made military intervention terror has emerged: Larijani

TEHRAN – Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday that terrorist actions in the Middle East region have mainly resulted from U.S. interferences.

By Zhou Dong-chen

U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria and its consequences

On April 14, 2018, the United States and its allies—Britain and France—launched precision strikes on Syria which is one fully-recognized sovereign state by the United Nations. For the sake of legitimacy of their “aggression”, France claimed that the attacks were purely aimed at the chemical depots, Britain stated that it was not about intervening in civil war. And the U. S. President made a formal address in which, he said that Syrian dictator Bashar runs the very terrible regime that used chemical weapons against his own people, “a crime of one monster” as described by him.

By Javad Heirannia

Attack on Syria violated international laws: Lendman

TEHRAN – U.S. columnist Stephen Lendman says that “Overnight U.S., UK and French aggression on Syria had nothing to do with the alleged Douma chemical weapons (CW) incident that didn’t happen – and has everything to do with America’s imperial project, along with punishing Syria and Russia for defeating its aims in the country.”

Larijani to discuss Syria in Vietnam, Sri Lanka trips

TEHRAN – Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says he would discuss the latest developments in Syria in meetings with the Vietnamese and Sri Lankan officials in his tour to Hanoi and Colombo.

MPs condemn trilateral airstrike against Syria

TEHRAN – In a joint statement, 239 Iranian lawmakers condemned the attack on Syria by the U.S., UK and France, saying the new plots of Western countries will end in failure.