The Syrian president holds talks with Supreme Chief Khamenei and President Raisi on additional creating bilateral relations.
Tehran, Iran – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has held conferences with Iran’s supreme chief and the nation’s president throughout a shock go to to Tehran, a key navy backer of the Syrian regime.
Assad met with Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi after making an unannounced go to to the Iranian capital on Sunday morning after which left for Damascus the identical day, in line with Nournews, an outlet affiliated with Iran’s Supreme Nationwide Safety Council (SNSC).
The supreme chief’s web site confirmed the assembly. Its readout of the uncommon sit-down quoted Khamenei as telling Assad that his “victory in a world conflict” has elevated the credibility of Syria, and that Iran needs to spice up bilateral ties.
“At present’s Syria shouldn't be Syria earlier than the conflict, despite the fact that there was no destruction again then, however now the respect and credibility of Syria is way more and all look to it as an influence,” Khamenei was quoted as saying.
Khamenei additionally took intention at international locations within the area which have normalised ties with Israel or maintain high-level conferences with its officers, saying that is whereas their very own persons are chanting anti-Zionist slogans on Quds Day.
That is the Syrian president’s second journey to Tehran for the reason that begin of Syria’s conflict in 2011. He had beforehand met the Iranian supreme chief, his greatest regional ally, in February 2019.
On the time, Qassem Soleimani, the commander-in-chief of the Quds Power, the international operations arm of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had accompanied Assad on his go to.
Soleimani was assassinated by a United States drone assault in Iraq in January 2020 underneath former President Donald Trump.
Iran’s stances on regional points
Throughout Sunday’s assembly, the Iranian supreme chief additionally remembered Soleimani and mentioned his efforts in Syria have been no completely different than these in the course of the eight-year Iran-Iraq Warfare ending in 1988, which Iran considers a interval of “holy defence”.
“This connection and relationship is important for each international locations and we should not enable it to be weakened, however should strengthen it as a lot as potential,” Khamenei mentioned.
Assad was quoted by the supreme chief’s web site as telling Khamenei and Raisi that Iran’s stances on regional points, particularly Palestine, in the course of the previous 4 many years have proven that “Iran’s path is an accurate and elementary path.
“The destruction of conflict will be rebuilt, but when fundamentals and fundamentals are destroyed they can't be restored,” he reportedly mentioned.
Practically 400,000 individuals have been killed within the 11-year conflict in Syria, in line with the UN. The battle has left giant elements of Syria in ruins and displaced greater than half of the nation’s inhabitants, with tens of millions compelled to hunt refuge in neighbouring international locations.
Assad additionally mentioned some consider Iran provides its so-called “axis of resistance” throughout the area with weapons, however its most necessary backing consists of supporting the “spirit of resistance” and sustaining it. He added that “strategic” ties between Iran and Syria have turn out to be the primary issue stopping Israel’s dominance over the area.
Iran together with Russian navy help turned the conflict in Assad’s favour.
‘Strengthening deterrence’
In a separate assembly with Assad, the Iranian president lamented that elements of Syrian soil are nonetheless managed by international forces and mentioned “occupying forces and their mercenaries have to be compelled out.”
Raisi additionally mentioned that “threats by the Zionist regime within the area should even be thought-about by means of strengthening and diversifying deterrence equations.”
He pledged that boosting ties, particularly financial and enterprise relations with Syria is a high precedence for his administration, including that he's additionally able to cooperate extra on political and safety points and combating “terrorism”.
Assad was quoted by the president’s web site as saying the US position within the area is weakening within the face of regional resistance.
“Expertise has confirmed that cooperation amongst regional international locations on a variety of points together with Palestine has been extremely efficient, and Palestinian successes have proven that compromise by some Arab international locations has led to reverse outcomes,” he mentioned.
In March, the Syrian president travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – his first journey to an Arab state for the reason that Syrian conflict started in 2011 – throughout which he met Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The UAE and Bahrain established formal diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020. A number of different Arab international locations adopted go well with.
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