{"id":1714,"date":"2011-08-25T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T15:13:02","slug":"ahmadinejad-calls-for-syrian-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/ahmadinejad-calls-for-syrian-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad Calls for Syrian Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"><strong>Iranian President, who crushed protests from opponents after his re-election, calls for dialogue between Syrian regime, opposition to end violence.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>ADO-World.org<\/strong><br \/>\n25-August-2011<\/p>\n<p>BEIRUT &#8211; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the main ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, called Wednesday for dialogue between Damascus and the opposition to end months of violence.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The people and government of Syria must come together to reach an understanding,&quot; he told Lebanese Al-Manar television, the station run by the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah movement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When there is a problem between the people and their leaders they must sit down together to reach a solution, away from violence,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One must not kill the other, because killing, whichever side is responsible, serves Zionist interests,&quot; Israel&#8217;s arch-foe added.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials have several times called on Assad to make reforms in order to avoid being swept away by rebellions such as those that have occurred in other Arab states.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Iran has accused Israel and the United States of trying to undermine Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, the European Union and Syrian opposition groups have accused Tehran of helping Syrian security forces put down the uprising, with the loss of hundreds of lives, a claim vehemently denied by Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We need freedom, justice and free elections,&quot; Ahmadinejad added. But, he added, &quot;the people who seek freedom and justice&#8230; must strengthen the resistance against the Zionist entity.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadinejad&#8217;s re-election as Iranian president in 2009 sparked waves of protests from opponents claiming they were unfair, resulting in dozens of deaths and thousands of arrests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middle-east-online.com\/english\/?id=47790\">Middle East Online<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President, who crushed protests from opponents after his re-election, calls for dialogue between Syrian regime, opposition to end violence. ADO-World.org 25-August-2011 BEIRUT &#8211; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the main ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, called Wednesday for dialogue between Damascus and the opposition to end months of violence. &quot;The people and government of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/syria_unrest2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}