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Iran invites head of Arab League to Palestine conference Iranian official delivers invitation to Nabil El-Arabi and emphasises the importance of close Egyptian-Iranian ties and a resolution of the 'situation' in Syria
Nabil El-Arabi, secretary-general of the Arab League, has received an official invitation from Iran's Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani to attend the Fifth International Palestine Conference to be held in Iran in early October. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, passed on Larijani's invitation at a meeting with El-Arabi Tuesday in the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. Boroujerdi stressed the importance of the conference, citing the importance of the Palestinian cause to Iran and saying that all countries must unite in support of Palestine, the reason for the conference. He added that talks with El-Arabi itook in the significant historic stage that Egypt is undergoing, expressions of his support for Egypt and stressing that the outcome will serve the Palestinian cause. Boroujerdi expressed his hopes that Egypt goes on to hold presidential and legislative elections. Iran and Egypt are important countries, said Boroujerdi, and close ties between them must be established which would have a large impact on the region and the world. Iran anticipates such ties and is waiting for the Egyptian government's decisions concerning the issue, he said. Boroujerdi went on to express his concern with the situation in Syria, saying that Iran expects that the United States – after losing Egypt in its regional balance – is now playing in the Syrian arena to make up for the loss of Egypt. He said: “Thus, we must help Syria so as not to allow the United States of America to interfere in regional issues and find itself another base to attain this goal,” asserting that the US wants to break resistance in the region and realise its interests “to open the road ahead of the Zionist entity which continues settlement activity in the occupied lands.” Boroujerdi called for the support of the Syrian government in ending the current situation in Syria, mentioning what El-Arabi had stressed as the need to continue to exert effort with the Syrian government to find resolutions for the unrest.
