Kerry voices doubts on Iran role in Geneva talks on Syria.

Kerry voices doubts on Iran role in Geneva talks on Syria.(Taz).

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday it was hard to see how Iran could play a constructive role in planned peace talks in Geneva without backing plans for a transitional government in Syria, Reuters reported.

Speaking in Paris after talks with Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Kerry said Iran had already not supported the implementation of a first round of talks in Geneva.

"So it's very hard to see how Iran can be constructive in the absence of their willingness to come for the purpose of the negotiation," he told reporters. "If they accept Geneva 1, and want to be constructive in helping to set up a transitional government, that's a different issue", Kerry said.

Iran receives verbal proposal to take part in int’l conference on Syria.

Iran receives verbal proposal to take part in int’l conference on Syria.(TI).

Iran received a verbal proposal to take part in the international conference on Syria just over a week ago, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said at a press conference in RIA Novosti today. "We received a verbal proposal to participate in this conference 10 days ago," he said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry voiced the idea of holding "Geneva-2" international conference on Syria during a meeting in Moscow on May 7.Read the full story here.