IRI Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said here Monday evening decision making on Egyptian President Muhammad al-Morsi's proposal would be after Cairo meeting of foreign ministries' experts.
Salehi who was answering an INRA reporter's question on Iran's response to President Morsi's proposal for consultation among the Iranian, Egyptian, Saudi and Turkish officials on Syrian crisis, added, "We are basically agreed with this proposal, but the Islamic Republic of Iran has proposed a complementary proposal."
He reiterated, "IN this respect the Islamic Republic of Iran has asked for adding two more countries to this combination, and the matter would be surveyed during today's meeting of the Iranian, Saudi, Turkish, and Egyptian foreign ministry experts."
Salehi added, "After that meeting and considering its results, the Islamic Republic of Iran would decide over Egypt's proposal."
He said that Iraq is one of the two countries proposed by Iran to be included in the four-sided group proposed by Egypt."
Salehi added, "The presence of Iraq as the current head of the Arab League and an important and influential country in the region can
contribute to solving the Syrian crisis."
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Sunday accused the US and other countries of providing military support to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army.
Iran's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, too, warned against the military intervention of foreign forces in Syria. Vahidi said Iran has not deployed military forces in Syria and the Syrian government has not asked Iran to do so.
Also, senior Iranian diplomat welcomed Egypt's proposal for the settlement of the Syrian crisis, and said that Tehran will strive to materialize the contents of Cairo's suggested plan.
'Egypt's proposal on Syria is welcomed by Iran and we try to materialize the proposal,' Head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Middle-East Office Mohammad Ferdosipour told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday.
During the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was held on August 14-15 in Mecca, Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi proposed the formation of the contact group, including Iran, Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia on the situation in Syria.
Ferdosipour said that the contact group with its regional potentials can make its utmost efforts to settle the problems in Syria.
Syria has been experiencing unrest 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 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, 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 increasing unrests in Syria.