Iranian Foreign Ministry: Tehran maintains good relations with the Assad regime and will continue to support it
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqhaei, said in a press conference: “Tehran’s relation with Bashar al-Assad is good, and we will continue to support it.”
Baqhaei ‘s statement came after the visit of a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Larijani, to Damascus and Beirut.
Baqhaei said: Larijani’s visit also expressed the possibility of using all Iran’s capabilities to back its diplomatic aims.
Baqhaei added: “Iranian presence in Syria was to face terrorism of ISIS and to prevent its expanding.”
Baqhaei pointed out that “the United States and other European countries are the ones who provide facilitations for ISIS members.”
Since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the Assad regime has distanced itself from that war and prevented the use of Syrian territory to launch attacks against Israel despite its affiliation with the “axis of resistance.”
It is noteworthy that several sites of the Assad regime and Iranian militias are repeatedly subjected to Israeli air strikes, in the areas of Damascus and its countryside, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo, so the Assad regime responded by shelling areas outside its control in Syria.
