{"id":63573,"date":"2015-12-06T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T07:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=63573"},"modified":"2015-12-06T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T07:55:11","slug":"velayati-the-syrian-people-must-decide-their-own-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=63573","title":{"rendered":"Velayati: The Syrian people must decide their own fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, SANA &#8211; The Senior Advisor to Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Akbar Velayati asserted that the future of Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad could only be determined by the Syrian people and this was a &#8220;red line&#8221; for Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Syrian people must decide their own fate, and nobody outside Syria&#8217;s borders can choose for the Syrian people,&#8221; Velayati said in an interview with Iranian TV Channel 3 aired on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Iran will not leave President al-Assad alone on the battlefield or in the politics field, affirming Iran&#8217;s presence in the political negotiations on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>On the visit paid by Russia&#8217;s president Vladimir Putin to Tehran, Velayati highlighted that President al-Assad and Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasallah were acquainted with the issues discussed by the Russian and Iranian sides.<\/p>\n<p>Reem\/H.Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, SANA &#8211; The Senior Advisor to Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Akbar Velayati asserted that the future of Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad could only be determined by the Syrian people and this was a &#8220;red line&#8221; for Tehran. &#8220;The Syrian people must decide their own fate, and nobody outside Syria&#8217;s borders can choose for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":63574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[2785],"class_list":["post-63573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-velayati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}