Pressure on Assad is revenge for Syria's anti-Israel position: Iranian MP

TEHRAN, Aug.11(MNA) - An Iranian lawmaker said on Thursday that attempts by the West to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is due to Syria's support for Palestinian groups resisting the Israeli occupation. Ebrahim Aqa Mohammadi who sits on the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said the pressure on Syria is an act of "revenge." "The pressures on Syria to topple the Bashar Assad's government are firstly an act of revenge on the resistance which has countered the Zionist regime for years," the lawmaker noted. Iran hosted an international conference on Syria on Thursday with the aim of finding a political solution to the 18-month violence in the Arab country which has so far left thousands dead or injured.