Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi in a phone call with UN and Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan conferred latest developments in the region and Syria, here on Wednesday, IRNA reported.
Salehi repeated his support for Annan's peace plan for resolution of Syrian crisis and Condemned Wednesday terrorist action against high-ranking Syrian officials.
He called this event as a sign of penetration of terrorism in region including Syria.
Regarding bitter consequences of continued presence of terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, Salehi asked Annan to take a decisive position in support of return of stability to Damascus.
Annan for his part acknowledged Salehi's remarks and condemned the terrorist action, noting that he would support Tehran's offers for peaceful resolution of Syrian crisis.
A suicide bomber at a 'national security' force building in the capital Damascus Wednesday killed the country's defense minister and wounded the interior minister.
The attack struck the National Security building in Damascus during a meeting of Cabinet ministers and senior security officials. State-run TV said some of the officials were seriously wounded and killed Defense Minister Daud Rajihah.
Al-Manar TV said that the Syrian Interior Minister, Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sha'ar, is among those wounded in the blast.
The capital has seen four straight days of clashes pitting government troops against terrorist and rebel groups, who are trying to bring down the government by force.
President Bashar al-Assad's advisors as well as his brother-in-law were both killed in the terrorist bomb attack.
The Syrian TV quoting the country's army pledged to wipe out 'criminal gangs'.
A Syrian security source confirmed Shawkat, 62, was killed and said intelligence chief Hisham Bekhtyar was wounded. State television said Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar had also been wounded in the blast.
The Syrian president immediately appointed a new defense minister, Fahad Jassim al-Freij, previously the armed forces' chief of staff, in a show of power and determination.
Assad was not at the meeting where it took place.
The explosion appeared to be part of coordinated terrorist moves in the capital.
Syria has been experiencing unrests since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Zionist regime, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of stirring unrests in Syria once again.
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