Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seeking to establish a new diplomatic contact group on Syria in Iran’s latest diplomatic bid to end what he described as “tribal warfare” in Syria.
In response to a question from Al-Monitor, Ahmadinejad, speaking at separate events to journalists and policy experts in New York, said that Iran’s latest diplomatic initiative results from the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) last month in Tehran. Iran holds the NAM chairmanship until 2015.