The Arab Quartet Committee on Crisis Developments with Iran (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) has condemned the ongoing intervention in Syria, stressing that this involvement does not serve efforts to achieve a political settlement.

At its meeting yesterday, Wednesday, the committee condemned the continued Iranian intervention in the internal affairs of Arab countries and its support for acts of "terrorism and sabotage." The quartet also condemned the ongoing "provocative statements" of senior Iranian officials against Arab countries.

They also expressed "great concern at Iran's ethnic escalation in Arab countries, including support and armament of terrorist militias in some Arab countries, and the chaos and instability created in the region that threatens Arab national security, hindering regional efforts and international issues to resolve the region's problems and crises."

The commission said the Iranian intervention in Syria "had serious consequences for Syria's future, sovereignty, security, stability, national unity and territorial integrity", and "does not serve the efforts made to settle the Syrian crisis peacefully in the spirit of the Geneva Convention".

It is worth noting that the seventeenth meeting of the Quartet took place on the sidelines of the 157th session of the Council of League of Arab States at the level of ministers, at the League headquarters in Cairo.