TEHRAN – A special aide to Iran’s parliament speaker has warned against plans to turn terrorists in Syria into politicians as the Damascus government and the opposition groups are going to sit for talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Monday.

“The Kazakhstan meeting initiative is remarkable, but in Syria’s political solutions, yesterday’s terrorists should not turn into today’s politicians,” Hossein Amir Abdollahian said in a meeting on Saturday with Syria’s ambassador to Iran, Tasnim reported.

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