Syria, Iran hold talks on boosting media ties

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Jouhina news,

A session of talks was held on Thursday between Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi and Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati on means of developing media relations between the two countries.

Minister al-Zoubi affirmed the importance of boosting media joint cooperation between Syrian and Iranian press institutions to confront the Takfiri terrorism, calling for forming a team work to put mechanisms and laws as to develop work during the next stage.

“Syria carries on a war against terrorism, not to defend itself only, but to defend Islam and countries of the region,” al-Zoubi said, adding that terrorist organizations which destroyed infrastructure and killed, abducted and looted people, are a Takfiri project, supported by some Arab regimes.

Jannati, for his part, affirmed that Iran’s strategy, since the victory of Islamic revolution, is to support the resistance axis, particularly Syria.

“Since the beginning of the crisis, Iran has believed that solution is political, not military,” Jannati said, calling for forming an international coalition against terrorism.

He affirmed that the international media conference on confronting Takfiri terrorism, which will be held in Damascus on Friday, will have a great role in forming a coalition against terrorism, calling for forming a media front to face the support offered by some countries to terrorism in Syria.

Earlier,  Minister Ali Jannati said the Iranian side participating in the international media conference in Syria aims at contributing to combating extremism in the region, particularly in Syria.

His remarks came upon his arrival at Damascus International Airport to participate in the two-day conference, which deals with the scourge of terrorism sweeping the countries of the region and is held by the Information Ministry.

The conference will be held under the auspices of President Bashar al-Assad and will discuss various issues including the role of mass media in confronting terrorism, journalism field work, the need to form an alliance to combat terrorism, and future visions for mass media.

More than 130 media figures from Syria, Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Cyprus, Britain, Germany, and Kuwait will participate in the conference.

In a press statement during receiving Jannati, Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi affirmed that combating terrorism requires international and regional coordination to meet the its increasing threat to the entire region.