DAMASCUS, Syria, – A senior Iranian regime official has met with Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad and vowed continued support for his government in the country’s five-year-old civil war.
Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, met with Assad in Damascus on Saturday.
Syria’s state news agency SANA quoted Velayati as saying that Tehran will always stand by Syria because it “knows that terrorism does not target Syria but the whole people of the region.”
Velayati’s comments came as Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that a cease-fire in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has been extended by three days starting Saturday.
Source: extracted from AP, May 7, 2016
