"It is the duty of Syria's Moslem neighbors to refrain from backing the terrorists," armed forces chief of staff General Hassan Firouzabadi was quoted as saying.
"Turkey and Jordan should close their borders to terrorists," he said, using the same term for rebel fighters as Iran's ally Syria.
Western countries and the Syrian opposition accuse Iran of providing military support to the regime in Syria, where more than 17,000 people have reportedly been killed in an uprising since March 2011. Tehran denies the charge.
Hossein Amir Abdolahian, an Iranian deputy foreign minister, said U.N.-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...had been warned during a visit to Tehran earlier this week over the smuggling of arms into Syria.
"Terrorist groups operate in Syria in coordination with certain foreign countries," Amir Abdolahian said.