Parliament's Top Advisor:

Iran to Continue Supporting Syria

Rasa - Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian renewed Tehran’s support for the Syrian government and nation in their ongoing fight against the terrorist groups.

News ID: 423175

Date: 03 September 2016 - 16:32

RNA - “Tehran will strongly continue its supports for the people, government and legal president of Syria Bashar Assad,” Amir Abdollahian said.

The senior advisor, meantime, congratulated the Syrian army’s recent victories in the war against the terrorist groups.

Amir Abdollahian pointed to the defeats of the terrorists and their withdrawal from many regions in Syrian territories, including the Damascus countryside, and said, “The Syrian army and popular forces have done a great job to weaken the terrorist groups.”

In relevant remarks in late June, Iranian Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati underlined that Syria would have been disintegrated if Tehran had not taken action in support of the Arab country's fight against the terrorist groups.

"The western states, headed by the US, created turmoil in Syria since the beginning to overthrow the Syrian government which is Iran's strategic partner so that a government will be empowered that would receive money from certain regional states, implement the US-dictated policies and would not have any problem with Israel," Velayati said.

"This policy is against our strategic interests and therefore, we stood against it. Had Iran not supported the Damascus government, it would have collapsed within some weeks or Syria would be disintegrated, which was more probable," he added.

"Therefore, under such conditions, Iran supports the Syrian government with all its power. If we don’t have relations with Syria, our ties with Hezbollah will not remain in place either," Velayati said.

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