Iran's deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs said on Wednesday that his country calls for United Nations control on Syrian borders, IRNA reported.
He said that Iranian senior officials in their talks with the UN envoy on Syria, Kofi Annan, stressed the need to bring Syrian borders under control of the United Nations to prevent smuggling weapons to the Arab state.
In an interview with IRNA, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian added that Annan's plan to end Syrian conflict was not successful due to arming the insurgents by the countries "which favour chaos in the country".
Iran expressed concern over creating obstacles to Annan's peace plan by certain countries, he said, noting that what he called "terrorist groups" are acting in the country freely and this has overshadowed the democratic demands.
If Syria's borders are checked, the insurgents cannot continue with sabotage, he noted, adding that this will help the Syrian situation return to normalcy.
Amir-Abdollahian made it clear that Iran believes that Syrian crisis is political not military.
Annan visited Iran after his talks with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to brief Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and Secretary General of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili on Geneva conference of the "Friends of Syria".
Iran has termed participants of the Geneva conference as the adversaries of Syria, because they "follow their own dream of destroying the Syrian legitimate government".
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