Syria's Assad Meets With Iranian Leader, President In Surprise Visit To Tehran
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Supreme Leader of the Islamic revolution Seyed Ali Khamenei and
Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi held separate meetings with
visiting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Tehran on Sunday,
Trend reports
citing Fars News Agency .
Assad had separate meetings with Ayatollah Khamenei and
President Rayeesi after arriving in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on
Sunday morning, Nournews, affiliated with Iran's Supreme National
Security Council (SNSC), reported.
The Syrian president left the country after the meetings, it
added.
This was Assad's second visit to Iran since the Arab country
entangled in fight against the terrorist groups in 2011. He had
last visited the country in February 2019 after relative calm
returned to his country by suppressing the terrorist Takfiri
groups.
On his previous trip to Iran, Assad was accompanied by late
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force
Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who supervised Iran's advisory
military role in Syria aimed at fighting the terrorist groups.
In a meeting between Ayatollah Khamenei and Assad in February
2019, the two leaders agreed“to continue cooperation at all levels
for the interests of the two friendly nations”.
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