Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi warned on Monday of the possibility of Syria breaking up and its conflict spilling across the Middle East unless a political solution can end the bloodshed.
“God forbid, if there was a void, or disintegration, in Syria, this crisis would spill over into all countries in the region,” said Salehi, whose country is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Instead, the Assad regime and its opponents should seek a political solution by setting up a transitional government until elections, he told reporters in Jeddah.
He also rejected foreign intervention in Syria, which is in its third year of conflict after protests against the regime in 2011 morphed into an armed rebellion.
“The Syrian people should have self-determination… It is not permitted that decisions made abroad get to be imposed on an ancient country and people like Syria,” he said.
Salehi on Sunday held talks with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Saud al-Faisal. He acknowledged he had “different views” with his host, whose kingdom supports the Syrian opposition.
The Syria conflict has claimed more than 80,000 lives, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog.
WarSclerotic 
May 14, 2013 at 8:13 AM
Of course he is worried. Iran has no vaccine against the ”Syrian problem” spilling in the Ayatollah’s Land. And, obviously, losing such an ally – a puppet – is a heavy blow for the uranians. We are waiting for something interesting to happen in Urania. Please, don’t make us waiting for longer. Its quite about time.
May 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM
In our opinion, the S-300 missile deal is without hope from Israel point of view. What Bibi will try to achieve with Putin -among the other ”things”- will be the denial of Russian experts/ trainers from Syria to turn those S-300 operational. Anyhow, this deal only accelerated the military operations in Iran, because Israel cannot wait until the Russians will complete their missile defense system deployment.
May 14, 2013 at 1:58 PM
No matter if Syria splits or not, the genie is out of the bottle and can’t put be back:
There are two possible outcomes.
Syria splits or Syria becomes a failed state like Iraq with a weak goverment and powerful factiions constantantly killing each other like they do in Iraq.
A split won’t bring peace either. The various groups will fight each other in a bitter war.
The Sunnis will fight for access to the Mediterranean Sea splitting the Shias who are concentrated there from Lebanon.
The Kurds will have their state in the North East and are likely to aim for some form of union with the Iraqi Kurds.
The Kurds are a people without their own land and this will be the first step in the fulfillment of their long dream for an own state.
It is likely that they will try to grab as much of the Syrian cake as possible.
Fearing the spread of Kurdish separatism and reawakened Nationalism, the Turks with a sizeable Kurdish population of 20% will have to act one way or the other to prevent Kurdish separatism from spilling in to Turkey.
Bottom Line: This fire can’t be put out, no matter which way Syria goes.
Either way, this cancer will grow and spread.