Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi to meet Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad this week, in the first ever trip for an Iranian president to Syria since the civil war broke out in 2011
Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei last year hailed the relationship between Tehran and Damascus as"vital for both countries", saying it should be strengthened"as much as possible".
Tehran has given financial and military support to the Assad regime during the war. Iran says it has deployed forces in Syria at the invitation of Damascus but only as advisers. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday the planned presidential visit signals the"multidimensional" cooperation between the two countries.Alongside Russia, Iran has been a key ally in backing Assad as he clawed back his grip over the country during the conflict which has claimed the lives of some 500,000 people and displaced nearly half of Syria's population.
Assad is hoping full normalisation of ties with wealthy Gulf monarchies and other Arab states will help to finance the reconstruction of the country's war-ravaged infrastructure.
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