The Syrian unrest suicide bombing in Damascus
Iran on Saturday condemned a deadly suicide bombing in
Damascus, charging that such “terrorist actions” were the work of
foreign governments that wanted to arm the Syrian opposition.Iran
“condemns terrorist act that resulted in killing and injuring Syrian
people and also condemns foreign intervention,” the deputy foreign
minister in charge of Arab and African affairs, Hossein Amirabdolahian,
said in a statement posted on his ministry’s website.”The parties who
back sending weapons to Syria are responsible for killing innocent
people. Some parties, by sending weapons and (committing) terrorist
actions in this country, are pursuing their own specific goals,” he
said. State media said at least 11 people died and 28 were wounded in
yesterday’s suicide bombing which hit worshippers leaving a mosque after
the main weekly prayers.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said two civilians died. Syria is the chief Middle East ally of
Iran, which has pledged its support to beleaguered President Bashar
al-Assad.The persistent bloodshed has endangered a hard-won truce
brokered by international peace envoy Kofi Annan even before the full
deployment of a promised 300-strong UN military observer
mission.Amirabdolahian stressed in his statement that the solution to
the Syrian unrest should be a “solely political one” that incorporates
reforms promised by Assad. “Some parties consider themselves above the
UN and its special envoy’s plan and are trying to impose their will with
hasty actions,” he said, in another swipe at countries that have argued
in favour of arming the Syrian opposition.Amirabdolahian did not name
them but Iran’s Gulf Arab rivals Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been among
the most outspoken champions of arming the rebels, although both
governments insist they are not yet doing so. US officials have voiced
suspicion that Iran is supplying Assad’s regime with weapons and
military advisers, but Tehran has denied
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