TEHRAN(Basirat): Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian described the trilateral meeting held in Sochi between Iran, Turkey and Russia as a crushing response to the terrorist groups and their supporters.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, affirmed on Monday that the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism on Syria “has worked in a shameful way” depending in its conclusions on data proposed by nongovernmental institutions, some of which linked to terrorists.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian and Turkish counterparts Hassan Rouhani and Recep Tayyip Erdogan next week for summit talks on the ongoing conflict in Syria and other regional developments.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Lebanese President Michel Aoun has blasted Saudi Arabia for ‘detaining’ Prime Minister Saad Hariri, describing the move as an act of hostility against Lebanon.