Syrian president Bashar al-Assad meets Iranian leader in Tehran

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad meets Iranian leader in Tehran

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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi meets with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Tehran, Iran May 8, 2022. Official Presidential website/Handout via REUTERS – THIRD PARTY.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited his closest regional ally Iran on Sunday for talks with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during which both leaders called for stronger ties between Tehran and Damascus, Iranian state media reported.

Assad, who was making his second trip to Tehran since the start of Syriaโ€™s war in 2011, also met Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during his trip, Iranโ€™s state news agency IRNA reported.
โ€œTodayโ€™s Syria is not what it was before the war, although there were no destructions then, but the respect and prestige of Syria is greater than before, and everyone sees this country as a power,โ€ Khamenei told Assad, according to Iranโ€™ state TV.
Assad was able to turn the tide of Syriaโ€™s civil war, which erupted from pro-democracy protests in 2011, with crucial help from Iranโ€™s proxy militias and Russiaโ€™s major military intervention in 2015.
Iranian State TV quoted Assad as saying that โ€œthe strategic ties between Iran and Syria has prevented the Zionist regimeโ€™s (Israel) dominance in the regionโ€. Iranโ€™s Nournews said Assad had left Tehran for Syria.
Israel, Which the Islamic Republic refuses to recognise, has mounted frequent attacks against what it has described as Iranian targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces including Lebanonโ€™s Hezbollah have deployed over the last decade to support Assad in Syriaโ€™s war.
Iranโ€™s President Raisi said in meeting with Assad that his governmentโ€™s priority was to strengthen strategic ties with Syria, Iranโ€™s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Iranโ€™s economic influence in Syria has grown in recent years, supplying Assadโ€™s government with credit lines and winning lucrative business contracts.
REUTERS

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