A senior Iranian lawmaker says the Islamic Republic’s regional strategy is based on maintaining Syria’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
“The Zionist regime (of Israel) seeks a weak Syria and counters whatever leads to the strengthening of the Syrian nation and government,” Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said in a meeting with Syrian Ambassador to Tehran Adnan Mahmoud on Sunday, Press TV reported.
He pointed to the US measures against Iran over the past four decades and said, “Since the first days after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the US strategy was to weaken the [Islamic] Revolution and the Islamic Republic and has spared no efforts in this regard.”
For his part, ambassador Mahmoud stressed the importance of bolstering relations in all fields and said the US and its allies want to wage an economic war due to their failures in the political arena.
Mahmoud also said the US and its regional mercenaries as well as all those who support terrorism for their own political objectives are liable for recent terrorist attacks in Syria.
The battle against terrorism in Syria is not different from anti-terror campaign across the Middle East, the Syrian diplomat pointed out.
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