Syrian parliament speaker due in Iran for talks
The Syrian parliament speaker will pay an official visit to Iran
soon to hold talks with senior officials of the Islamic Republic, the Iranian
parliament speaker's special advisor on international affairs, Hossein
Amir-Abdollahian, says.
He added on Sunday that Hadiya Khalaf Abbas
would travel to Tehran as the first female Syrian parliament speaker at the
invitation of her Iranian counterpart, Ali Larijani.
“During her visit to Tehran, the Syrian
parliament speaker will hold consultations [with Iranian officials] on the
latest parliamentary and political interactions between Tehran and Damascus,”
Amir-Abdollahian said. The top Syrian parliamentarian’s visit to Tehran
will come after Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the Iranian Parliament's
Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, traveled to Damascus in
August and held talks with senior Syrian officials including President Bashar
al-Assad, the country's parliament speaker, Prime Minister Imad Khamis and
Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem. Syria has been gripped by
foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. United Nations Special Envoy for
Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in
the conflict. Back in 2014, the UN said it would no more update its death toll for
Syria because it could not verify the figures that it received from various
sources.
A week-long truce, brokered by Russia and the
US, came to an end across Syria on September 19.
Damascus refused to extend the deal after its
military base was hit by US-led airstrikes near the eastern city Dayr al-Zawr
in violation of the agreement.
In recent months, the Takfiri militants have
suffered major setbacks as the Syrian army has managed to liberate several
areas.
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