Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (L) holds talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. (File photo)
Iran Warns Of Regional Chaos In Post-Assad Era -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister warned on Tuesday of unforeseeable consequences if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was toppled and said only a political settlement to Syria's civil war would avoid a regional conflagration.
Shi'ite Muslim Iran is Assad's closest ally and has provided money, weapons, intelligence and training for his forces against a mainly Sunni Muslim uprising in which more than 70,000 people have been killed in two years, by a U.N. estimate.
"God forbid, if there is any vacuum in Syria, these negative consequences will affect all countries ... No one knows what will happen," Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters during a rare visit to Jordan.
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Iran FM: Arabs should respond to Israeli strikes -- AP
Israeli airstrike in Syria brings Iran onstage, raising risk of proxy war -- Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor
Iran Cannot Afford to Lose Syria -- Arutz Sheva editorial