Former UN Syria envoy says Iran plan on Syria 'worth discussing'
In his first interview since resigning as the UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi reflects on the reasons for the failure of the Geneva process and the prospects for a political solution in Syria.
WASHINGTON — Lakhdar Brahimi, who resigned on May 13 as Joint United Nations-League of Arab States Special Representative for Syria, said that an Iranian proposal for a political solution in Syria is "worth discussing."
“I told the Security Council the other day, one of the hopeful signs, maybe a straw that you are trying to catch out of this desperate situation, is that the Iranians have been saying let’s get all the foreign fighters out,” Brahimi said in an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor in Washington.
“They must mean also Hezbollah, and the Iraqis, and their own,” said Brahimi, adding that discussing Iran’s four-point proposal “does not mean taking it all as it is. But I think it is one of the elements you can discuss.”
Brahimi, who succeeded Kofi Annan as Syria envoy in September 2012, lamented that divisions in the UN Security Council and the region complicated his diplomacy in support of a political transition in Syria.
