“The consequences of Morsi being overthrown is against the Islamists and all Egyptian revolutionaries,” said the Chairman of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi in an interview with the Iranian ISNA news agency.

Boroujerdi believes that Morsi should have made a wide change in the system and removed the officials from Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

“The first mistake of the Muslim Brotherhood was that they only removed a few of ex-regime’s senior officials and they didn’t make any change to the body of Egypt’s Security, Military and Intelligence organizations,” he said.

“One of the problems with Mubarak was that he continued following US politics and Egyptians had expected an independent government to come to power. But Morsi didn’t make any significant change in such politics and he continued Mubarak’s stance towards Israel and Iran,” Boroujerdi said.

Iran nevertheless still favored leaving Morsi in charge and to allow him to reconcile with the opposition.

Iran on Tuesday had called on the Egyptian military to support national reconciliation and respect the “vote of the people” after it warned it was ready to intervene in Egypt’s political crisis.

“Mohamed Morsi is the incumbent president based on the people’s vote,” Iranian deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the official IRNA news agency.

“It is expected the armed forces of Egypt that they play their role in supporting national reconciliation and respect the vote of the people.”

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Lebanese Foreign Minister, Adnan Mansour traveled to Tehran on Saturday by the invitation of his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi and two sides discussed regional issues with a focus on Syrian crisis.

“The west talks about human right but send weapons to Syrian terrorists,” said Salehi in a joint press conference with Mansour.

“Iran will never let other impose their will on Syria, The Syrian should decide for their fate,” Salehi said.

Lebanese FM also criticized western efforts to send weapons to anti Syrian government fighters.

“The current Syrian government is the legitimate. Sending weapons for one side of the conflict will not solve the crisis,” he said.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also slammed the decision of sending weapons to the Syrian rebels on Sunday.

In a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister he said: “Enemies try to dominate the region and Syria is part of their scenario. We should be vigil and not get deluded by their plans. Violence would not solve the Syrian crisis and both sides should negotiate,” he said.

A spokesman for the foreign-backed Takfiri militants in Syria said the armed groups have been supplied with heavy weapons by ‘brotherly nations’.

Louay Muqdad, the media coordinator of the terrorist Free Syrian Army (FSA), told CNN on June 21 that the new weapons “will be a turning point” in the conflict and will “definitely change the rules of the war on the ground.”

“We have received quantities of new types of weapons, including some that we asked for and that we believe will change the course of the battle on the ground.”

Hussein Amir Abdollahian, Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African affairs is another Iranian official that criticize the western stance regard Syria.

“Those who support providing weapons to Syrian rebels are responsible for the civilian’s lives. The U.S. and U.K. made several strategy mistakes in Syria,” he said on Sunday.

The secretary of Iran’s National Security Council also met with the Lebanese FM on Sunday.

In the meeting Saeed Jalili a candidate of Iran’s Presidential election said: “Sending weapons to Syrian terrorists by some countries is a threat to international security.”

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“Some parties that are supporting terrorists and supplying them with weapons are responsible for slaughter of Syrian people and destroying their land,” he said in an interview with Iranian Fars news agency on Wednesday.

Syria’s state TV reported today that southwest city of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon, which has been under siege for more than two weeks, is now in hands of government forces.

“Our heroic armed forces have returned security and stability to all of the town of Qusayr,” a statement carried by the station said on Wednesday.

Armed terrorist also confirmed they had pulled out of Qusayr.

According to Lebanese Almayadin satellite channel, Syrian army conducted an over night raid against terrorists.

During last two weeks, Syrian army was fighting against the terrorist in border city of Qusayr with support of Lebanese Hezbollah forces.

One Hezbollah fighter told the Reuters news agency that they took the town in a rapid overnight offensive, allowing some of the fighters to flee. 

“We did a sudden surprise attack in the early hours and entered the town. They escaped,” he said.

Recapturing of Qusayr means retaining control of important province of Homs and cutting the weapon supplying route of terrorist through Syria- Lebanon border.

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Official website of Iran’s Supreme Leader reports on the history of direct negotiations between Iran and the USA.

The former Ambassador of Iran to Iraq and the head of the Iranian negotiation team with the USA, Hassan Kazemi Qomi described Americans in the negotiations as “Not sincere, Irrational and inconsiderate”.

In an interview with the website of the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, He cited that Americans proposed talks to Iran in 2007 only because of the increasing crisis in Iraq and the tremendous failure of the USA in Iraq by taking the wrong policy.

“The US will face problems everywhere in the world unless they respect other countries’ interests, norms and social and cultural structures,” The then Iranian ambassador to Iraq added.

The Ambassadors of Iran and The US met to talk about Iraq in 2007, which was the first direct talks between the two countries since the Iranian 1979 revolution.

Hussein Amir Abdollahian, Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African affairs and a member of the Iranian negotiation team to the US in 2007, also had an interview with the Ayatollah Khamenei’s official website.

“Iran’s Supreme Leader pointed out in 2007 that those talks were an exception due to the situation in Iraq,” he said in answer to a question on how Iran accepted such negotiations with the US.

He added that Ayatollah Khamenei gave instructions to the negotiation team and said, “You should be wise and rational, you should not seek results at any cost, and our principals must be guarded.”

“Our red line, according to the Leader, was to negotiate only for the issue of Iraq and nothing else,” Amir Abdollahian said.

“Americans made some irrational moves, during the negotiations and after it. They used propaganda before the negotiations and accused Iran of intervention in Iraq’s domestic issues, followed by accusations during the talks. Iran’s negotiation team, entered talks with a rational view, despite the US’ illogical approach to solve the problems of Iraq.” He added.

“After the negotiations, Americans began to ascribe their own negative attributes to Iranians and wanted to impose their own will in this manner. In their propaganda they pretended that Iran was told that they should not intervene in Iraq and Iran bowed.”

Amir Abdollahian believes Iran did not have a good experience of negotiations with US.

“Americans acted hastily. They think they should reach a conclusion very soon. Because of their dominating attitude, they think it is their right to develop the agenda. But the Iranian team did not let them. We stood our ground and asserted that the agenda should be developed by both sides.”

“Americans don’t negotiate with Iran in a logical manner. When they heard our rational ideas, they didn’t have an answer and walked away.” He added.

Amir Abdollahian said that one of the other problems at the first direct talks between the two countries was that the American team didn’t have sovereignty in decision making. “While we were given carte blanche, the American team didn’t have this freedom, despite the fact that there were representatives from significant organizations like the Pentagon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the CIA.

Last month, Iran’s Supreme Leader, in reaction to the readiness of certain US officials for direct talks with Iran, denied the proposals and labeled them as “Irrational and not Sincere”.

“[Negotiations are not meaningful] when one side does not show his good intentions. You yourselves refer to this as pressures and negotiations. These two things are not compatible. You want to point the gun at the people of Iran and say; negotiate or we will shoot,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a Speech to Air Force Commanders and Personnel on February 2, 2013.

After this speech by Iran’s Leader, the head of the negotiation team with the US in Iraq, criticized those in the country who supported talks with the US. “Those who are eager for negotiations with the US should know that the US does not want to untangle problems through negotiations,” Kazemi Qomi said in an interview with the Official website of Iran’s supreme leader.

The other member of the Iranian negotiating team also thinks that the ball is in the US’ court. “They have sent new signals in Obama’s new term. But the ball is in their court and they should decide to act upon the rational dialogue of Iran,” Amir Abdollahian reiterates.

“If you ask me about the US’ willingness to negotiate, as a person who has had the experience, I would say they are willing, but they are not intending to solve the problem.”

“What they have shown in action is that they are out to belittle the Islamic Republic. They want to compensate for their failure in West Asia and the Islamic Awakening, and for that, they want to undermine the great status of Iran.”

“We are not opposed to negotiations, but negotiations have conditions. The Islamic Republic’s sovereignty should be maintained in any talks.”

He reiterates on two facts mentioned by the Supreme Leader and says, “We have had a bitter experience in talks with the US in the past. And if Americans are sincere in their talks, they should agree to the conditions proposed by Iran; they would then definitely see the logical and wise approach of Iran.

But Amir Adbollahian is not optimistic about the talks being held and says, “It’s not expected that our expectations will be met, and we don’t anticipate a positive outcome from the current foreign policy of the United States.”

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