In an interview with the Lebanese Al Mayadeen television channel, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran looks forward to cooperate with Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s initiative of forming a quartet committee comprising Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to resolve the Syrian crisis.

“Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s initiative of forming a quartet committee comprising Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to resolve the Syrian crisis is very important and effective, given Egypt’s position in the Arab World and the Muslim World,” Salehi said.

He added that Iran has made ‘very few’ changes to the initiative, which have nothing to do with the ‘substance’ of the proposal.

During a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Mecca in August 2012, Morsi presented an initiative to establish a contact group on Syria comprising the mentioned the quartet group.

A high-level meeting of the quartet group was held on September 17, 2012 about a week after preparatory talks in Cairo by lower-ranking officials from the four countries.

The Iranian, Egyptian, and Turkish presidents also met in Cairo on February 6 and called for an immediate solution to the crisis in Syria and an end to the bloodshed