The Iranian foreign ministry has called for the freshly brokered US and Russian ceasefire in southwestern Syria to be extended to the entire war torn nation to aid in peace talks intended to bring the 6-year-old war to an end, APA reports quoting sputniknews.
Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi told Tasnim news agency that the ceasefire would fall apart in short order unless it was expanded to the entire country.
"The agreement can be fruitful if it is expanded to all of Syria and includes all the area that we discussed in Astana talks for de-escalating the tension," Qasemi said, referring to the May peace talks at which Iran, Russia, and Turkey (but not the US) agreed on the creation of "de-escalation zones" where combat operations would be prohibited.
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