Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photo: Screenshot.

Iran’s clerical supreme leader said elections should be held in Syria to end the civil war there and criticized foreign powers that arm and fund Syrian opposition fighters, state television reported on Sunday.

In an annual address to the Islamic Republic’s top diplomats, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said that U.S. objectives in the Middle East were the opposite of Iran’s and that negotiating with Washington on regional issues was meaningless.

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