'Iran to continue advisory aid to Syria'

“The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue its advisory assistance to the Syrian government at the level requested and required,” Hossein Jaberi Ansari said on Saturday.

He added that the Syrian crisis should be settled through political approaches and emphasized that the Syrians’ vote should finally solve the conflict in the Arab country.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, since the outset of the Syrian crisis, has stressed the political settlement of this crisis and has repeatedly announced that the Syrian problem has no military solution,” the Iranian spokesperson pointed out.

He added that foreign interference in Syria’s internal affairs runs counter to objectives and interests of the Syrian nation.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which has furthermore displaced over half of Syria’s pre-war population of about 23 million.

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