Several lawmakers yesterday warned the government against taking part in a meeting in Tehran today to discuss the crisis in Syria, saying that the Islamic republic hands are stained with the blood of the Syrian people.

Islamist MP Waleed Al-Tabtabai said that Kuwait’s participation in the Tehran meeting is “rejected because Iran hands are stained with the blood of the Syrian people”, adding that the meeting also aims at rescuing the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad.

Iran said earlier this week that 10 countries with a rational stance toward the Syrian crisis were invited to a meeting in Tehran today, but did not reveal the names of those countries. A top aide to the Iranian foreign minister visited Kuwait on Sunday and handed Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah an invitation to attend the meeting.

So far, Kuwait has not announced any position on the meeting but Islamist MP Jamaan Al-Harbash said he is confident that Kuwait will not take part, insisting that participation in the conference amounts to a betrayal to the blood of the Syrian martyrs.

Islamist MP Mohammad Hayef said those “participating in Iran conference are politically contributing in supporting the tyrannical regime in Syria because the regimes of Bashar and Iran are two faces of the same coin”.

Hayef asked what would Iran provide when it has been deadly opposing the downfall of the Syrian regime. MP Mubarak Al-Waalan said that taking part in the Tehran meeting is a “political and military participation in the killing of our brothers in Syria and backing a sectarian regime that is brutally killing an unarmed people” he said.

In another development, opposition MPs yesterday issued one of the strongest warnings to the government so far regarding the controversial issue of the reported government plan to refer the electoral law to the constitutional court.

The government has reportedly delayed until at least next week a decision on whether to refer the law to the court or not amid reports that the government is inclined to refer the law despite stiff opposition.

MP Mussallam Al-Barrak warned that the protests will start immediately once the government refers the law to the court and the people will protest at the “square of will in defense of the constitution”.

MP Harbash said that the cost of the protests will be too expensive, saying that “if the people go to the square of will, the cost will be high and it will not limit its demands to maintain the five electoral districts”.

The government is considering views expressed by a number of constitutional experts that the electoral law and voting system are not in line with the constitution. The government wants the constitutional court’s opinion on the law before it recommends dissolving the 2009 election and holding fresh polls.

This means that the 2009 Assembly will continue for a few more months. The opposition is insisting that the 2009 Assembly is illegitimate and must be immediately dissolved and fresh election held. It says that any amendment to the electoral law can be agreed in the new Assembly.