Ahmadinejad's remarks come days before he was to visit Cairo, the first Iranian president to visit Egypt in decades.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Syria's crisis could not be solved by military means and he called for a national accord leading to elections.
"War is not the solution...A government that rules through war - its
work will be very difficult. A sectarian war should not be launched in
Syria," he told Al Mayadeen television.
"We believe that [deciding] whoever stays or goes is the right of the
Syrian people. How can we interfere in that? We must strive to achieve
national understanding, and free elections."
Ahmadinejad's remarks came just days before he was to visit Cairo,
marking the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian leader in decades.
Even so, Mohammed Kamel Amr described Ahmadinejad's visit as routine,
since hewill be attending a summit of the Organization of Islamic
Conference in Cairo
.
Officials in Cairo did not say Monday whether the Iranian leader would
meet Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during his visit. Morsi is from
thefundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood
.
Iran and Egypt, both regional heavyweights, once had strong ties.
Diplomatic relations deteriorated after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in
Iran and Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. Relations remained cold until
Egypt's 2011 uprising.
Soon after taking office last summer, Morsi made a historic visit to Tehran to attend a summit of nonaligned nations
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