DUBAI: Iran’s foreign minister said on Tuesday Tehran opposed a U. S. presence at peace talks on Syria in the Kazakh capital next week, after a decision by Russia and Turkey to invite Washington.
„We have not invited them, and we are against their presence,“ Iran’s Tasnim news agency quoted Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying.
The United States, which led failed efforts to launch peace talks last year, has not been involved in the latest diplomacy around the Syrian conflict.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, speaking separately on Tuesday at a news conference broadcast live on state television, said: „Iran, Russia and Turkey managed to bring a ceasefire to Syria … It shows these three powers have influence.
