{"id":21740,"date":"2013-01-18T12:23:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T11:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/18\/284222\/iran-supports-votebased-syria-reforms\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T12:23:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T11:23:59","slug":"iran-supports-vote-based-syria-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/iran-supports-vote-based-syria-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Iran supports vote-based Syria reforms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (file photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran supports reforms in Syria which are based on people\u2019s votes.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that reforms should be carried out in Syria and they need to be based on the public vote, Ali Akbar Velayati said in an interview with the Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen TV channel.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Velayati, however, added that the reforms should not be carried out through violence or the support of the United States and certain reactionary regimes like Qatar, which provides militants with weapons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSyria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Iran stresses that the crisis in the Arab state must be resolved politically.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic has repeatedly condemned any foreign interference in Syria and denounced certain countries\u2019 support of militants carrying out terrorist activities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>AR\/MA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (file photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran supports reforms in Syria which are based on people&rsquo;s votes.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that reforms should be carried out in Syria and they need to be based on the public vote, Ali Akbar Velayati said in an interview with the Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen TV channel.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Velayati, however, added that the reforms should not be carried out through violence or the support of the United States and certain reactionary regimes like Qatar, which provides militants with weapons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSyria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Iran stresses that the crisis in the Arab state must be resolved politically.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic has repeatedly condemned any foreign interference in Syria and denounced certain countries&rsquo; support of militants carrying out terrorist activities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>AR\/MA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}