TEHRAN -- Iranian Ambassador to Beirut Qazanfar Roknabadi and Representative of the Iranian Assyrians and Chaldeans at the parliament Yonatan Betkelia in a meeting discussed the conditions of Christians, specially the Assyrians, in the region. They made the remarks in a meeting also attended by several Lebanese Assyrian figures in Beirut on Wednesday. At the meeting, Betkelia thanked the Iranian embassy in Beirut for helping the Syrian refugees, including Assyrians and Christians of the Muslim country, and said, "Unfortunately, some radical groups under the name of Islam and religion have committed murders and crimes (in Syria) and have caused migration of a large number of Syrian citizens to other countries." He pointed to Iran's efforts aimed at resolving the Syrian crisis, and said, "Holding national dialogue meetings in Tehran has had very good achievements and we are witnessing these results now and the Syrian crisis is moving towards a political solution." The Iranian ambassador, for his part, briefed the visiting Assyrian delegation on Iran's approach towards positive interaction with followers of divine faiths and religions. Roknabadi said that the Iranian embassy in Lebanon is ready to help the Syrian refugees, specially Christians and Assyrians. 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. Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes. The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad. In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria. The Palestinian al-Manar weekly reported that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been financing and supplying armed rebels in Syria with more explosive materials they have recently purchased from the US, Israel and UK in a bid to help the terrorists carry out their anti-government operations in the Arab country. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have smuggled the explosives to Syria with the assistance of the intelligence services of the Arab country's neighboring countries, including Turkey, the al-Manar quoted informed security sources as saying in December. The sources also disclosed that there are special terrorist garrisons in Turkey which are administered by the security officers of Israel and western countries. So far, several sources have disclosed that Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been financing and dispatching terrorists in Syria and smuggle weapons to the crisis-hit country for campaign against Assad's government. Reports coming from Syria in mid 2012 said that Saudi Arabia and Qatar in collaboration with the US and Britain have set up a secret command center in Turkey to supply the terrorists in Syria with military and communications aid to seize control of Aleppo city from the Syrian government.
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