Official: Iran Helping Syria in Anti-Terror Fight for Mere Friendship

Rasa - Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezayee said Tehran's support for the Syrian government falls within the age-old friendly relations between the two countries.

News ID: 437299

Date: 22 April 2018 - 22:47

RNA - "All the helps that the Islamic Republic of Iran offered to Syria were because of friendly ties between the two countries," said Rezayee, former Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) during 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

He underlined that the Islamic Republic of Iran is honest in its friendship with Syria.

According to Fars News Agancy, in a relevant development on Saturday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a message to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad underlined his country's continued support for Damascus in the fight against terrorist groups and efforts to reconstruct the war-hit country.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran will remain beside the Syrian government and nation in this (anti-terrorism) fight and will continue its assistance until annihilation of all evil forces and the return of security and stability to the entire Arab Republic of Syria," President Rouhani said in the message on the occasion of the Independence Day in Syria.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to stand beside you with all its possibilities to reconstruct Syria as it has been beside the Syrian nation in the fight and confrontation against terrorism," he added.

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