Syria not to allow disintegration of its territory: Syrian minister

The Syrian people will not allow their country to be disintegrated, the visiting Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said here on Sunday.

"Although Syria has suffered a lot from damage recently, it would never die and would never be collapsed," al-Zoubi told the General Assembly meeting of The Islamic Radios and Televisions Union (IRTVU) that kicked off here in Tehran on Sunday.

The infrastructure in Syria has been devastated by the Islamic State (IS) militants and other terrorist groups supported by the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, he said.

"Only the Zionist regime of Israel benefits the most from these attacks on Syria ... (but) nobody dares to pull down the flag of Syria, and neither the United States, nor Israel and other cowards from the southern region of the Persian Gulf have any power to do so," he was quoted as saying.

"My country is the hotbed of Islamic world and is a member of the global Muslim family," he said, adding that "we have only one choice: to fight to the last drop of our blood ... The Syrian people would not allow an iota of their country to be separated."

The political solutions to the Syrian crisis which do not honor free election of the Syrian people and its leadership are doomed to failure, al-Zoubi concluded.

Representatives attending the IRTVU conference launched U-NEWS in Tehran on Sunday to cover the events of the Islamic states, IRIB reported.

The U-NEWS will produce news and stories related to the Islamic states and the "resistance" front including Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Bahrain, according to IRIB. Endit