President Assad receives Iranian official

(MENAFN) Syria will continue pushing ahead with counter terrorism aided by friendly countries, namely Iran and Russia, which sets the stage for a peaceful solution, the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad affirmed.

The President's remarks came as he received on Saturday Iran's Foreign Minister's Special Assistant in Political Affairs Hussein Jaberi Ansari.

The common counter-terrorism efforts and endeavors for the forthcoming Syrian national dialogue congress in Sochi to work out were among the things discussed, as well as Strategic Syrian-Iranian ties and the mutual desire to boost them.

Agreeing that Turkey's assaults on Afrin is aimed at grabbing Syrian territories, backing terrorist organizations, and ruining peace efforts in Syria, both sides condemned the Turkish nonstop aggression against Syrian territories and crimes against Syrian citizens.

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