ANKARA: Iran said on Thursday that some groups linked to ISIS were involved in the talks in Riyadh to discuss forming a delegation for negotiations on the future of Syria, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Delegates from Syrian opposition and rebel groups agreed in Riyadh on Thursday to bring together political and armed factions in a single body in preparation for possible peace talks with the government of President Bashar Assad.
Iran is a crucial ally of Assad in Syria's nearly five-year-old civil war.
"Some of the terrorist groups linked to Islamic State are involved in the (Riyadh) talks ... these terrorist groups will not be allowed to decide Syria's future," Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said, according to Fars.