Iran’s Support for Resistance Nonnegotiable: Senior MP

(Tasnim) – Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Tehran's support for the resistance movement was nonnegotiable in the context of the ongoing talks over Tehran’s nuclear activities with the West.

“The nuclear negotiations are purely over the nuclear issue and do not include any other item,” Boroujerdi told reporters after meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Tamam Salam at the Grand Serail on Friday.

“We cannot trade our defense and embrace of the resistance for anything else and this is a solid political policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added, referring to Hezbollah, Lebanon’s Daily Star reported.

Boroujerdi, who arrived in Beirut on Thursday following a trip to Damascus, also said that he briefed Salam on the latest developments in talks between Iran and the six major world powers (known as P5+1).

"Every success achieved by the Islamic Republic of Iran on the international level reflects positively on strengthening security and stability in the region in general,” he said.

Elsewehre, He described his meeting with Salam as “very good,” and handed the prime minister a congratulatory letter from the Iranian first vice-president on the formation of a new government.

Boroujerdi also said he had asked Salam to have his government pay special attention to two cases: the 1982 abduction of the Iranian diplomats on Lebanese soil and the disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr.

Accompanied by Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi, Boroujerdi also visited Hezbollah Martyrs’ Graveyard and placed a wreath on the grave of slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh.

He also visited the grave of Iranian Embassy chief security guard, Radwan Fares who was killed in last November's twin attack against the Iranian Embassy in the Beirut neighborhood in Bir Hassan.

Boroujerdi also visited Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh where he briefed the Lebanese politician on the outcome of his visit to Damascus where he held a series of meetings with Syrian officials.

Speaking to the reporters after talks with Berri, Boroujerdi said that the Lebanese officials were agreed with Iran that the only solution to the crisis in Syria was a political one.

He also said that he spoke with Lebanese officials about the ongoing efforts to combat terrorism in the country, saying that Iran would help Lebanon in this regard.