TEHRAN – Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs and Syria’s deputy foreign minister discussed the Syrian crisis over the telephone on Saturday.

According to IRNA, Hossein Jaberi Ansari and Faisal Mekdad talked about on-ground developments in the war-torn country and also reviewed the prospect of the ongoing talks on Syria that are being held with influential countries in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ansari made the call as he was accompanying Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Lausanne.

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