Iran-Syria Relations

Iran’s Defense Minister General Mohammadreza Ashtiani has said now the time has come to rebuild Syria after the end of the foreign-backed militancy in the country, adding Tehran is ready to provide Damascus with weaponary.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has reiterated Tehran's unrelenting support for Syria and the resistance front. He stated that the Arab country would certainly achieve final victory in the face of enemies.

Tehran and Damascus jointly censure Israel’s acts of aggression against Syria and occupation of the Arab country’s Golan Heights, describing the regime as the “root cause” of all crises and security threats in the region.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says his visit to Syria was a “turning point” in bilateral relations between the two countries following more than a decade of their joint efforts against enemy plots.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has stated that the resistance of the Palestinian and Lebanese people as well as resistance gropus against Israel has made the Zionist regime “weaker than ever.”

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with resistance leaders and commanders and Palestinian thinkers in Syria, stressing that Palestine is the most important issue for the Islamic world.

People and religious clerics in Syria have offered a warm welcome to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi as he was visiting the holy shrine of Hazrat Zeinab (PBUH) in the southern suburbs of Damascus. Raisi then led prayers at the site.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has hailed the Syrian government and nations’ resistance against the West’s political pressure and economic sanctions during the past years.

The United States has expressed concern over Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to Syria. State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel said on Wednesday that the deepening ties between Tehran and Damascus should be a source of worry for the international community.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has reaffirmed Iran’s continued support for Syria, saying just as the Islamic Republic stood by the Syrian government and people in the war on terror, it will also keep standing by its Syrian brothers in the field of development and progress too.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has arrived in Syria at the head of a political and economic delegation on an official two-day visit, Syria’s state media say.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman says a planned visit by the Iranian president to Syria will take place according to the schedule.

A senior Iranian government official says President Ebrahim Raisi is slated to travel to Syria, without giving the exact date, in the first such a visit to the Arab country since 2010.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stressed the need for further promoting economic cooperation with Tehran, as he hosted Iran’s Minister of Road and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash and his accompanying delegation in the capital Damascus.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani is in the Russian capital, Moscow, to join a quadrilateral meeting aimed at securing the normalization of ties between Syria and Turkey.

Turkey’s Defence Minister Hulusi Akar says he will meet his Russian, Iranian and Syrian counterparts in Moscow on Tuesday. Akar also added that the countries’ intelligence chiefs will also attend the meeting in the Russian capital.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi congratulated his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and the people of the country on the National Day of the Syrian Arab Republic.

A meeting between the senior diplomats of Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey is planned to be held in the near future, a high-ranking Russian official said on Monday.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has told his Syria counterpart Bashar al-Assad on the phone that the world order is changing in favor of the axis of resistance and to the detriment of the global arrogance and the Zionist regime.

A meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey on normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus may take place in the Russian capital, Moscow, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

An Iranian defense ministry official says Iran is going to help Syria beef up its air defense systems.

Head of Iran's Foreign Policy Strategic Council Kamal Kharrazi says his recent visit to Lebanon and Syria was made in coordination with the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

Head of Iran’s Strategic Foreign Relations Council Kamal Kharrazi holds a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus for talks on issues of the two countries’ mutual interest.

The Iranian foreign minister, in a meeting with Syria's president, called for the removal of sanctions against Syria to faciliate aid relief to quake-hit Syrians.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned Israeli attack on the international airport in the quake-hit Syrian city of Aleppo, as a clear example of crime against humanity.