An armoured vehicle used by security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government moves along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia . AFP
"This accusation is completely ridiculous and rejected, and we think that pointing the finger of accusation at Iran and Iran's friends is wrongly addressed, a deviant trend, and a hundred percent misleading," said foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei in a weekly press briefing.
Iran also stated on Monday that there was "no justification" for attacks on minorities in Syria, including Alawites, the community to which toppled president Bashar al-Assad, a long-time Tehran ally, belongs.
"There is no justification for the attacks on parts of the Alawite, Christian, Druze and other minorities, which have truly wounded the emotions and conscience of both the countries of the region and internationally," Baqaei said .
Fighting between the new security forces and loyalists of the former Assad's government erupted last Thursday, after earlier tensions, and escalated into reported mass killings.
A total of 973 civilians have been killed in the coastal heartland of the Alawite minority community in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor on Monday.
The fighting has also killed hundreds of security forces as well as pro-Assad fighters, according to the Observatory, with the overall death toll exceeding 1,300.
Tehran helped prop up Assad during the country's long civil war, and provided him with military advisers.
In an interview with AFP on Friday, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran has remained "an observer" to the situation in Syria since the takeover by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's current interim president.
"We have no relationship with the current Syrian government, and we are not in a hurry in this regard," he added.
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