With international pressure increasing on efforts to end the two-year-long conflict, Iran - which maintains strong connections with President Bashar-al Assad's regime - has come out strongly, warning the West against arming the rebels.
The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili reiterated his government's standpoint to euronews:
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