Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in telephone conversations with his foreign counterparts deplored the US strikes in Syria. stressing the need for an international. impartial investigation into a chemical attack on the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun.
Zarif spoke with the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan. Venezuela. Brazil and Bolivia by phone on Thursday evening to discuss the latest developments in the region. particularly in Syria.
The Iranian minister’s diplomatic contacts with foreign officials have heightened in recent days following the April 7 US missile attack against a Syrian airbase near the city of Homs.
In the contacts. Zarif slammed as “unacceptable” the US move to launch a missile strike on the Syrian government’s Shayrat Airfield under the pretext that Damascus had been behind a deadly chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun. calling for an international. evenhanded probe into the incident.
The senior Iranian diplomat left Tehran for Moscow on Friday morning for a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Russia and Syria on the recent US military attack against Syria.
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