BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt Tuesday called on Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi to “dissociate himself” from making remarks on the situation in Syria, one day after the Iranian envoy said that most Syrians were supportive of embattled President Bashar Assad.“

It is preferable that the Iranian ambassador dissociates himself from making remarks on the Syrian crisis, maybe by this he will reduce the sufferings of the Syrian people,” Jumblatt said in a statement.

“In response to Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon questioning the presence of a revolution in Syria,” Jumblatt continued, “it is preferable that he visits Baba Amro, Khalidiya and other Syrian cities.”

Syria has seen an 11-month uprising against Assad’s rule.

“He who is known for his accuracy in searching for information will see with his own eyes the massacres which were committed,” the PSP leader said, in reference to the bombing of Homs and other Syrian opposition hubs by the Syrian army over the past days.

Referring to the series of popular protests that shook the Arab world, the PSP leader said that “these overwhelming popular Arab revolutions in a number of countries, with Syria in the forefront, are not in need of lessons from anybody.”

Speaking to reporters at a lunch in the Iranian Embassy on the 33rd anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Roknabadi said that the Islamic Republic supports the Syrian regime now more than any time before.

“Seventy percent of the Syrian people have taken to streets in support of the Syrian president,” he said.