Iran, Syria call for support for Palestinians

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Syrian counterpart President Bashar Assad in a telephone conversation on Sunday underlined the need to further support Palestinian nation.

Only the real representatives of the Palestinian nation are eligible to decide their own destiny, said the two presidents.

The two presidents also discussed latest regional and international developments mainly those concerning Palestine and underlined that the upcoming Annapolis conference is doomed to failure.

The US-sponsored Middle East confab in Annapolis, Maryland, is to be held on November 7.