‘Everyone has accepted’ Assad should stay: Rouhani

He said that while it was vital to coordinate efforts against Islamic State militants this was not yet happening.

“So finally, I think most of these are political slogans at best”.

Mr Corbyn said: “The situation in Syria is desperate, with half the population displaced from their homes and 200,000 dead”.

“He can’t play a part in the future of Syria and that position hasn’t changed”, Cameron told reporters on Sunday.

“Iran, with the United States, does not have any direct talks vis-a-vis Syria“.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi defended his country’s intelligence-sharing agreement with Russian Federation, Syria and Iran on Monday, saying Baghdad needs to share intelligence with these countries and others in order to defeat the Islamic State group.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday, said in response to a statement by Iraq’s military that “all of the efforts need to be coordinated”. He has helped create this conflict and this migration crisis.

The top US commander in the Middle East, Gen. Lloyd Austin, insisted this month that the operation against IS was making progress, and said the military had always said the campaign would take time.

The US government rejected them, and that delayed the effort to stand up the Syrian rebel force. “It turns out that only 60 of these fighters have been properly trained, and as few as four or five people actually carry weapons,” he said.

Were the U.S.to do that, Rouhani said, it would destroy the country’s credibility overseas, and Iran would abide by its commitmnent to the deal.

The Iranian mission to the United Nations said late Sunday that Rouhani will cut short his visit to New York and return to Tehran after his address.

Mr Cameron is expected to drop his opposition to President Assad playing a role in any transitional government during talks with a number of leaders in New York.

Russia’s assistance for the Syrian government has irked the United States.

“We are just at the beginning of trying to understand what the Russians’ intentions are in Syria, in Iraq, and to try to see if there are mutually beneficial ways forward here”.

France had until now only struck Islamic State targets in neighboring Iraq. “He can’t be a part of Syria’s long-term future”.

Obama administration officials have hoped that the breakthrough on the nuclear deal could lead to additional dialogue with Iran, such as on the prisoners or their approach to the ongoing civil war in Syria.