Iran against US coming to Syria consultations

tehran - Iran opposes the arrival of a US delegation to the Syria-concert in the Kazakh capital Astana. That said, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Wednesday. The discussions Monday, January 23 instead.

'We have not invited the Americans and we oppose their presence in Astana,' the minister said. In the Syrian civil war, Iran has chosen the side of President Bashar Assad's regime. The US on the other hand support the rebels.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the peace talks in Astana earlier, the first step in the right direction. It costs time to solve the problems in the country after years of civil war. Most importantly keeps in his view that the truce so political negotiations remain possible.