Senior Iraqi MP: No weapons found in Iranian flight to Syria

A senior Iraqi lawmaker said his country's security forces have not found any weapons in the Iranian planes heading to Syria."Iraq inspects Syria-bound planes within its possibilities and has found no evidence showing dispatch of weapons to Syria through Iraq until now," member of the Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Commission Abbas al-Bayati said on Tuesday.He said that Iraq has adopted a neutral policy towards Syria, and underlined that his country's security forces will also stand against any possible armed activities which might be launched against Syria Iraq's soil.His remarks came after a senior Iranian MP criticized Iraq for inspecting Iranian planes taking humanitarian aid to Syria, and called on the foreign ministry to summon the Iraqi ambassador to Tehran to protest at the move."The foreign ministry should warn the Iraqi government and summon the country's envoy to prevent similar acts in the future," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Hassan Asafari told the Parliament's News Agency today.He said that Iran sends nothing more than agricultural products, food and clothes to Syria, and added, "Iran opposes sending weapons or military forces to Syria and condemns it and has proved it in the past; therefore, speculations that Iranian planes carry weapons for the Syrian government are the propaganda of the arrogant powers."