Iran has sent the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, to Damascus in a show of support for Bashar al-Assad and his rule.
Aiding Assad’s survival, Iran has been providing the regime with funds, arms and expertise in its campaign to crush Syria’s expanding rebellion.
Referring to the Middle East’s anti-Western powers – Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas – as the “axis of resistance” Jalili said:
"Iran will never allow the resistance axis – of which Syria is an essential pillar – to break,"
"What is happening in Syria is not an internal issue but a conflict between the axis of resistance on one hand, and the regional and global enemies of this axis on the other,"
Read the full report on the Telegraph here.
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