Brahimi in Tehran to Discuss Syrian Crisis

(FNA)- UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Tehran on Sunday to discuss the situation in Syria with senior Iranian officials.

Brahimi is slated to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday to discuss the recent developments with regard to Syria.

The UN-Arab League will also meet other Iranian officials during his three-day visit to Iran.

On Wednesday, the "Friends of Syria Conference" was inaugurated in Tehran to discuss the latest developments in crisis-hit Syria and find diplomatic solutions to the ongoing bloodshed in there.

The gathering started work in the presence of heads of parliamentary foreign policy commissions of Iran, Algiers, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Russia to review ways to cease bloodshed and violation of human rights in Syria.

Resolutions of the Syrian crisis through diplomacy and immediate end to violation of human rights were the main topics of the gathering.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.