ehmanparast said Iran's participation in the meeting is within the framework of solving the Syrian crisis and to listening to the Egyptian proposal. He said Iran will use this opportunity to provide its views, in addition to those of the other countries to this group. Egyptian officials in Cairo were not immediately available to confirm the meeting.

The meeting, if confirmed, would be the first of a regional contact group on Syria proposed by Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi, at an August summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Saudi Arabia that suspended Syria's membership.