President Assad made the remarks in a meeting with Ali Akbar Velayati, Head of Strategic Research Center, in Damascus, while noting the efforts of certain states to insecure the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch hostile stances are in association with defeats the terrorists are suffering in Iraq and Syria; yet such mean efforts could not halt Tehran and Damascus cooperation for strengthening peace in the region and defending their own national interests,\u201d he reaffirmed.<\/p>\n
Assad underlined that the conflict Syria and its allies are involved in today is not merely fighting terrorism; \u201cbut it is against investing on terrorism plot and the efforts to disintegrate the region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leader\u2019s senior advisor Ali Akbar Velayati, for his part, hailed Syria\u2019s resistance against \u201ca campaign that used all its potentials to destroy the country, its national unity and territorial integrity,\u201d expressing hope the war would result in uprooting all terrorist groups in Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN, Nov. 08 \u2013 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said recent hostile stances against Iran are not irrelevant to terrorists\u2019 failure in Syrian and Iraq. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34156,17000,13101],"class_list":["post-101714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ali-akbar-velayati-en-2","tag-bashar-al-assad-en","tag-islamic-republic-of-iran-en"],"yoast_head":"\n