Sensitive regional status necessitates Ahmadinejad's Syrian visit - Syrian diplomat
Damascus, July 17, IRNA
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Head of Syrian Foreign Ministry's Strategic Studies Center said here Monday "extremely sensitive" regional status makes President Ahmadinejad's upcoming visit of Damascus quite necessary.
Samir al-Taqi further emphasized in an exclusive interview with IRNA correspondent in Damascus, "The situation in the region is quite alarming today and in need of close consultations and full harmony among allies in order to confront the crises and challenges with which regional countries are faced with."
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to leave Tehran for Damascus on Thursday this week atop a high ranking delegation to congratulate the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the occasion of his being re-elected as his country's leader for a second term.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Housing and Rural Development Minister Mohammad Saeidi-Kia would be among the Iranian President's accompanying delegation during the day-long official visit.
President Bashar al-Assad would on Tuesday officially begin his second seven years in office after taking an oath to abide by the Syrian Arabic Republic's Constitution.
Al-Taqi reiterated, "The great significance of Ahmadinejad's second visit to Damascus is in the timing of this visit, keeping in mind the US role in Lebanon's internal affairs, the Arab World conflict with Israel, the chaotic conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Iran's nuclear issue, that are hand in had driving the region into a great explosion.
The Syrian political analyst added, "Regarding Iraq, by refusing to confess to defeat, the United States has led that war torn-country into a full fledged civil war, having achieved non of its declared objectives."
According to him the United States is currently in one of the worst possible conditions, thinking about another adventurist move to rid itself of the quagmire in which is caught in Iraq.
The Syrian official reiterated, "That explains the reason why the United States is mounting pressure against Syria and Iran once again."
Al-Taqi predicted that the countless shared interests of Iran and Syria, the ever increasing perils of the lingering Lebanese political crisis, and the tense situation in occupied Palestine and Iraq would encourage the United States to expand the dimensions of its militarist moves in the Persian Gulf region.
The Arab political strategist reiterated, "With such a perspective of the regional status, constant consultations and full harmony between Syria and Iran in order to confront effectively the challenges and threats is a bare necessity."
Samir al-Taqi expressed hope that Ahmadinejad's Syrian visit would also be a step toward further strengthening the two countries' close regional alliance, adding, "The two countries' officials should also see into full implementation of the reached agreements in various political and economic fields."
Sensitive regional status necessitates Ahmadinejad's Syrian visit - Syrian diplomat
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